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A web·guide to the glocal environment

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Contents below:

     · International Organizations

       · Professional associations

         · Networks & initiatives

           · Research

              · NGOs

                 · Private sector

International organizations

Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments

     "...a coordination and consultation mechanism that brings together the major international networks

     of local governments to undertake joint advocacy work relating to global policy processes. It was

     set up in 2013 to bring the perspectives of local and regional governments to the SDGs, climate

     change agenda and New Urban Agenda in particular."

     United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

IUCN

     Urban Alliance

UN Habitat

     Earth Observations Toolkit for Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements

     Urban Indicators Database

UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape

World Bank Ecological Cities and Economic Cities

World Health Organization (WHO)

     Urban environment


Professional associations

      · Also see Climate change ~ Institutions below

American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

     Resource guides

Architects for Peace

International Federation of Landscape Architects

Landscape Architecture Foundation


Networks & initiatives

Arid Cities Network

Clean Cities Coalition Network [USA]

Generation Restoration Cities initiative (2023–2025)

Grow Green [EU]

National League of Cities

     Sustainability & resilience

Nature-based solutions for Urban Resilience in the Anthropocene (NATURA)

ICLIE: Local Governments for Sustainability

     · Global

     · USA

     · CitiesWithNature

     · Cities Biodiversity Center

     · Urban Natural Assets for Africa (UNA) programme

Resilient Cities Network


Research

Center for Sustainable Cities @ USC

Center for Sustainable Urban Development @ Columbia University

Future of Small Cities Institute

Kounkuey Design Initiative

Senseable City Laboratory @ MIT

Seto Lab on Urbanization & Global Change @ Yale

Sustainable Urban Environments Initiative @ University at Buffalo


NGOs

Urban Land Institute

Urban Ocean Lab

Urban Permaculture Institute

urbz


Private Sector

R3GIS


Urban areas (including cities, towns, suburbs & exurbs)