Pathways to Urban Sustainability Perspective from Portland and the Pacific Northwest: Summary of a Workshop (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Participants discussed how integrated research that includes social scientists, natural and physical scientists, engineers, public health professionals, and planners will be needed to address complex urban systems. Following this initial workshop, STS planned three place-based urban sustainability workshops -- Atlanta, GA, Houston, TX, and Portland, OR.
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Session three examined academic and corporate scientific and engineering research that could help cities to become more sustainable. The final session addressed the challenging question of how resource-constrained cities can become agents for achieving broader societal goals not directly linked to their operational mandates, such as climate change mitigation, energy independence, and improvement in human health, particularly in low-income communities.
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