Gilberto Gallopín has a new article, entitled “Cities, Sustainability, and Complex Dissipative Systems. A Perspective” in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. In it, he critiques conventional notions of urban sustainability, arguing, “…because cities are dissipative structures, a city cannot be sustainable if the system is defined as the city itself in isolation from its environment.” He further uses the Global Scenario Group’s scenarios to analyze how the Earth System itself could change and the implications this would have on subsystems.
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