Planning Under Uncertainty: Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Innovation in Urban Ecosystems | The Nature of Cities | URBANmedias | Scoop.it

Cities face unprecedented challenges. Global environmental change is placing increasing pressure on ecosystem functions and their ability to support human activities. The exponential growth of human activities is a key driver of such change, so much so that Planet Earth has certainly entered a new Epoch—the Anthropocene, in which humans have as much influence as nature itself (Steffen et All 2007). The Anthropocene (Steffen et al 2007).