How can effective municipal solid waste management enhance urban resilience?

The concept of urban resilience has evolved from a narrow engineering definition of “bouncing back” to a sophisticated, multi-dimensional framework that encompasses the ability of a city to survive, adapt, and grow amidst the chronic stresses and acute shocks of the twenty-first century.  At the core of this evolution lies the recognition that cities are complex adaptive systems, where the failure of one subsystem can precipitate a cascade of vulnerabilities across the entire urban fabric

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The role of utilities in fostering urban circularity

The environmental impact of cities

Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Projections show that urbanization – the gradual shift in residence of the human population from rural to urban areas, combined with the overall growth of the world’s population – could add another 2.5 billion people to urban areas by 2050, with close to 90% of this increase taking place in Asia and Africa.

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