Creating Circular, Efficient and Symbiotic Cities: And How Higher Education Should Contribute to Create the Solutions that are Required

Karel Mulder

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Abstract

The ‘Grand Challenges’ of our times, like climate change, resource depletion, global inequity and the destruction of wildlife and biodiversity can only be addressed by innovating cities. This paper will analyse major options for innovating cities, main barriers for these innovations that are rooted in the paradigms of the experts running urban systems and educational reforms that might contribute overcoming these barriers.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHandbook of Sustainability Science and Research
EditorsWalter Leal Filho
PublisherSpringer
Pages699-710
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-63007-6
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-63006-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Publication series

NameWorld Sustainability Series
PublisherSpringer
ISSN (Print)2199-7373

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

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