Strategies for Sustainable Development in Megacities and Urban Agglomerations
A Helmholtz Research Initiative 2007 - 2011
Focus
The initiative will:
- contribute to the specification of sustainability objectives for the future development of megacities;
- assess characteristic risks, their driving factors and consequences in megacities;
- design strategies and instruments for risk management as key tools for sustainable urban development;
- develop implementation solutions that take the institutional, political, economic, and social aspects within megacities into account and
- build a platform for continuous learning and application in order to integrate academic research and practice.
