@article{204341, author = {Anu Ramaswami}, title = {Right-scaling and scaling-up knowledge co-production for decarbonization, climate-resilience and equity through [multilevel] metropolitan climate action planning}, abstract = {
Sustainable development, broadly defined as achieving wellbeing for all within planetary boundaries, requires transforming key infrastructure and food provisioning systems that foundationally connect people with nature (O{\textquoteright}Neill et al 2018). Indeed, these key provisioning systems that supply energy, mobility, construction materials, food, water, greenery, and waste management, contribute to\> 98\% of global water withdrawals and land use, and\> 94\% of global greenhouse gas emission (Ramaswami et al 2016, 2023). At the urban scale, where a majority of the world{\textquoteright}s people live, these provisioning systems foundationally impact, and are impacted by, social inequality. For example, poverty and socioeconomic status, shaped by gender, caste and race, are associated with lack of access to clean water, energy, housing, mobility and nutritious food, which in turn negatively impact economic opportunity and human\ {\textellipsis}
}, year = {2025}, journal = {Environmental Research Letters}, url = {https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adc471/meta}, }