This book chapter seeks to identify ways in which urban land use is a driver of climate change in both the developed and developing worlds. Urban land use factors identified as substantially affecting climate change include: rapid population growth; rapid urbanization; population migrations...

Energy -- Wind turbines -- Microgrids -- Geothermal -- Solar farms -- Rooftop solar -- Wave and tidal -- Concentrated solar -- Biomass energy -- Nuclear -- Cogeneration -- Micro wind -- Alexander von Humboldt -- Methane digesters -- In-stream hydro -- Waste to energy -- Grid flexibility --...

Urban agriculture is a nature-based solution recommended for the regeneration and adaptation of urban areas to climate change, in consonance with the European Green Deal. Nevertheless, for the development of urban agriculture, the availability, access and usability of cultivable land in urban...

Transport and industrial enterprises are the reasons for the basic pollution of the environments of large cities. This problem is particularly acute in Russia, where strict environmental standards either do not exist or are not enforced. Improving the management of ecological and economic system...

In the absence of concise conceptualization of planning and land use management strategies, the scope of their discussion in literature has been wide, with different nomenclature for almost similar concepts. This paper attempts to provide an overview of the models and tools used for land...