Integration of Emission Reduction and Environmental Management Goals for Sustainable Urban Development

摘要: Urbanisation and urban population growth have together been exerting pressure on the resources available while causing environmental pollution resource degradation. These issues led to a ‘green agenda’ that has customarily dealt with in form of assessing ecological footprint cities, impact analyses, carrying-capacity assessments; development/management plans for regions/city-regions are prepared based these assessments. Such management identify actions/interventions mitigate likely impacts development activities resources, ecology, environment. The understanding climate change its human society past decade set somewhat different global agenda focus on: (a) reducing green house gases, (b) instituting adaptation mechanisms, (c) undertaking mitigation measures. ultimate objectives both not mutually exclusive; rather, they can be ‘mutually reinforcing’ than being ‘autonomous’. There exists potential their integration at urban/city-region level. Green actions reinforce ‘emission reduction agenda’, if were well cast synergistic linkages between two. This chapter attempts bring out possible approaches it identifies areas where them potentially converge. It also brings ‘Compact City’ UK ‘Smart Growth’ USA reference such as relevant case replication India, albeit good extent metropolitan mega cities like Mumbai.