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On October 19, 2016, an expert committee under the Science and Technology for Sustainability program publicly released a consensus report, Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States. The report offers a road map and recommendations to help U.S. cities work toward sustainability, measurably improving their residents’ economic, social, and environmental well-being. The report recommends that every U.S. city develop a sustainability plan that not only accounts for its own unique characteristics but also adapts strategies that have led to measurable improvements in other cities with similar economic, environmental, and social contexts.
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Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States
Consensus Study Report
·2016
Cities have experienced an unprecedented rate of growth in the last decade. More than half the world's population lives in urban areas, with the U.S. percentage at 80 percent. Cities have captured more than 80 percent of the globe's economic activity and offered social mobility and economic prosperi...
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