Green Urban Management in the Light of Ecological Challenges
Green Urban Management in the Light of Ecological Challenges

Summary/Abstract: The number of people moving to cities has been growing steadily over the past decades, with the population of cities set to increase by around 350 million every five years over the next decades, while the absolute number of non-urban people is projected to fall. This also means that rural depopulation will begin in the less developed parts of the world, with the proportion of the urban population likely to exceed 65% by 2050. This process, combined with climate change, will place increasing pressure on cities and make them increasingly challenging to manage. Urban populations will be the ones to suffer. The latest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report published in March 2023 summarises the projected impacts of climate change, with key findings for cities. Climate change is having a detrimental impact on critical infrastructure, and extreme weather events and heat waves are intensifying in cities, which is also worsening air quality. In this paper, I will outline the issue of sustainable urban development and a possible way forward in the context of ecological sustainability, taking into account the limits of scope.

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