Urban Futures: Reflections post Rio+20 The UNESCO’s Man and the
Biosphere Programme (MAB) and the Sustainable Urban Systems
Section of the International Society for Industrial Ecology, is
hosting a two-day workshop at UNESCO Headquarters from 25 to 26
June 2012. Following the UN Rio+20 conference and the Gordon
conference on Industrial Ecology (June 17-22), this workshop
will explore emerging issues at the intersection of research and
policy on the global environmental impacts of cities. The
Workshop will be organized in five sessions: - Session 1.
Reflections Post Rio +20: Has a new sense of the role of cities
in addressing global environmental impacts emerged from Rio +20?
- Session 2. Upstream Impacts of Cities: Wider upstream
environmental impacts of urban metabolism. - Session 3.
Governing Green Cities: Effective multi-sector and multi-level
governance is key for greening cities; where is it being
conducted successfully; and what are the ingredients that make
it work well? - Session 4. Successful Green C