Prelims
SDG11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities: Towards Inclusive, Safe, and Resilient Settlements
ISBN: 978-1-78756-924-9, eISBN: 978-1-78756-921-8
Publication date: 9 November 2018
Citation
Al-Zu’bi, M. and Radovic, V. (2018), "Prelims", SDG11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities: Towards Inclusive, Safe, and Resilient Settlements (Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xi. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-921-820181007
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Copyright © 2019, Maha Al-Zu’bi and Vesela Radovic. Published under an exclusive licence
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SDG11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities: Towards Inclusive, Safe, and Resilient Settlements
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Concise Guides to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Series Editors
Walter Leal Filho
World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Mark Mifsud
Centre for Environmental Education and Research, University of Malta
This series comprises 17 short books, each examining one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The series provides an integrated assessment of the SDGs from an economic, social, environmental and cultural perspective. Books in the series critically analyse and assess the SDGs from a multi-disciplinary and a multi-regional standpoint, with each title demonstrating innovation in theoretical and empirical analysis, methodology and application of the SDG concerned.
Titles in this series have a particular focus on the means to implement the SDGs, and each one includes a short introduction to the SDG in question along with a synopsis of their implications on the economic, social, environmental and cultural domains.
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SDG11 – Sustainable Cities and Communities
Towards Inclusive, Safe, and Resilient Settlements
by
Maha Al-Zu’bi
University of Calgary, Canada
Vesela Radovic
Belgrade University, Serbia
United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China
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Contents
| List of Illustrations | vii |
| About the Authors | ix |
| Acknowledgments | xi |
| Introduction | 1 |
| 1. Cities and Key Interactions | 3 |
| 2. SDG11 and the Associated Challenges to Implementation | 21 |
| 3. Mapping SDG Stories | 77 |
| Conclusion | 93 |
| References | 97 |
| Index | 121 |
List of Illustrations
Box
| Box 1 | SDG11 and its 10 Targets. | 5 |
Tables
| Table 1 | Contributions of Green Roofs to the SDGs. | 25 |
| Table 2 | Matrix for SDG11. | 42 |
| Table 3 | SDG11 Targets and Indicators. | 47 |
| Table 4 | Germany’s Strategy and Programme Plan, 2017–2021. | 58 |
Figures
| Figure 1 | Complex Dynamics between Cities and Climate Change. | 9 |
| Figure 2 | Amman Green Growth Programme. | 82 |
About the Authors
Maha Al-Zu’bi, PhD, is Associate Consultant and Member of the Board of Directors of Plan: NET Limited, Calgary, Canada. Dr Al-Zu’bi, who specialises in environmental policy design, energy environmental systems and sustainable development, conducts most of her research in the Middle East region, focussing on the Arab cities, with the goal of proposing local climate policy and principles for governance of climate change adaptation and mitigation. Dr Al-Zu’bi has extensive involvement in managing internationally funded projects with the UNDP, WB, GIZ, etc., and is actively fostering interdisciplinary approaches to real-world energy, water and environmental issues. Dr Al-Zu’bi has published several papers related to climate change governance, green roof policy and the energy–water–food nexus.
Vesela Radovic, PhD, is an Associate Professor and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, Belgrade University, Serbia. She has a long record of experience in the area of sustainable development. She is an expert in the area of environmental protection and disaster management. She spent a year with the Fulbright/Hubert Humphrey Fellowship at Tulane University, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Department of International Health and Development, New Orleans, LA. During that year, in the United States, her focus was on public policy making, emergency preparedness and environmental protection. Dr Radovic has published a book, Environmental Security Evaluation and Contemporary Approach, and numerous articles at home and abroad. She has participated in many national and international projects and works as a regional expert in the sustainable development project.
Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank Professor Ivana Stojiljkovic for her valuable input, particularly the contribution to ‘The Cross-Cutting Nature of SGD11’ section.