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Cities and the Sustainability Dimensions

In: Cities and Sustainability

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  • Sudhakar Yedla

    (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR))

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Cities are the epicenters of economic prosperity, and that makes them vulnerable to various stresses both of environment and social dimensions. However, due to their higher per capita incomes and improved systems and infrastructure, they are equally capable to respond to certain corrective and futuristic measures. For the urban systems to sustain, they need to have abundant supply of resources as well as improved systemic efficiency in using the resources available to them. This accounting to both internal and external sustainability would be possible only by embarking onto ecological efficiency in various segments of the urban system accounting to production and consumption. Therefore, the cities have to develop a combination of policies to address in tandem and realize ecologically efficient production, ecologically efficient landscaping, ecological friendly culture, ecologically efficient and secured services provision, and ecologically efficient sanitation system. These five components as part of eco-city would help cities not only for their environmental sustainability but also on social equity and economic prosperity.

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  • Sudhakar Yedla, 2015. "Cities and the Sustainability Dimensions," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: S. Mahendra Dev & Sudhakar Yedla (ed.), Cities and Sustainability, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 1-21, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-81-322-2310-8_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2310-8_1
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