The Quest for Governance Modes on Sustainable Urbanization

BUYANA, KAREEM; OLUMUYIWA ADEGUN; COLLINS ADJEI MENSAH; MALDONADO, MARTÍN A; AMEDH, SALEH; ANGUELOVSKI, ISABELLE MICHELE SOPHIE; CHEN, RUISHAN

Durban

Conferencia; Sustainable Urbanization Seminar III; 2015

Internacional Social Science Council

However complex the urban sustainability question is, the facts are clear to all. Over the next four decades, the global urban population is expected to nearly double, with the vast majority of this happening in Asian and African cities; if we do not rethink and coalesce our approaches and practices, there will be rising urban inequality and conflicts, underpinned by accelerated resource scarcity and uncontainable environmental impacts.What modes of urban governance are emerging across the developed and developing world that demonstrate that it is possible to tackle the underlying challenges of urban growth, urban poverty, and environmental unsustainability? This was the question that brought the authors of this essay together. We write as a group of 18 world social science fellows on urban governance, gathered by the International Social Science Council (ISSC) and Cities Alliance, from Sept. 8-13, 2015 the in Durban, South Africa, hosted by the University of KwaZulu Natal and the Municipal Institute of Learning of eThekwini Municipality, under the professorial guidance of Mark Swilling (Sustainability Institute-Stellenbosch University South Africa) and Etienne Nel (Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, CROP), University of Otago-New Zealand.