The Routledge handbook of urbanization and global environmental change Introduction JoAnn Carmin Dedication Urbanization impacts on environmental systems and driver of global environmental change Urbanization economic growth and sustainability Michail Fragkias Urbanization food consumption and the environment Shannon Murray Samara Brock and Karen C. Seto Urbanization and agricultural land Xiangzheng Deng Urbanization and land use Dagmar Haase and Nina Schwarz Contemporary urbanization in India Chandana Mitra Bhartendu Pandey Nick B. Allen and Karen C. Seto Resource use for the construction and operation of built environments Burak Güneralp Harnessing urban water demand : lessons from North America Patricia Gober and Ray Quay Urbanization energy use and emissions Peter J.Marcotullio Suburban landscapes and lifestyles globalization and exporting the American dream Robin M. Leichenko and William Solecki Urbanization habitat loss and biodiversity decline : solution pathways to break the cycle Thomas Elmqvist Wayne C. Zipperer and Burak Güneralp Urban precipitation : a global perspective Chandana Mitra and J. Marshall Shepherd How is urbanization altering local and regional climate CSB Grimmond Helen C Ward and Simone Kotthaus Urban nutrient cycling Lucy R. Hutyra Global environmental change impacts on urban systems and urbanization processes Introduction A broader framing of ecosystem services in cities : benefits and challenges of built natural or hybrid system function Nancy B. Grimm Elizabeth M. Cook Rebecca L. Hale and David M. Iwaniec Urbanization vulnerability and risk Patricia Romero Lankao and Daniel Knatz Extreme events and their impacts on urban areas Andrea Ferraz Young Water supply and urban water availability Stephan Pfister Stefan Schultze and Stefanie Hellweg Urban water quality Conor Murphy Urban greening human health and wellbeing Alexei Trundle and Darryn McEvoy Food price volatility and urban food insecurity Marc J. Cohen and James L. Garrett Urbanization and global environmental change : from a gender and equity perspective Gotelind Alber and Kate Cahoon Urban responses to global environmental change Environmental justice and transitions to a sustainable urban future Christopher G. Boone and Sonja Klinsky Progress and challenges in urban climate adaptation planning Linda Shi Eric Chu and JoAnn Carmin Adaptation to climate change in rapidly growing cities Roberto Sánchez Rodríguez Spatial planning : an integrative approach to climate change response Shu Li Huang and Szu Hua Wang Climate change mitigation in high income cities Eugene Mohareb David Bristow and Sybil Derrible Climate change mitigation in medium sized low income cities Shuaib Lwasa Urban and peri urban agriculture : cultivating urban climate resilience Corrie Griffith John P. Connors Camille Nolasco Bolanle Wahab and Frank Mugagga Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into urban planning and conservation Robert McDonald The potential of the green economy and urban greening for addressing urban environmental change David Simon Positive externalities in the urban boundary : the case of industrial symbiosis Marian Chertow Junming Zhu and Valerie Moye Resilient urban infrastructure for adapting to extreme environmental disruptions Rae Zimmerman Soft and hard infrastructure co production and lock in : the challenges for a post carbon city Stephanie Pincetl Urbanization global change and sustainability : critical emerging integrative research Adaptation transformation and transition : approaches to the sustainability challenge Charles L. Redman City action for global environmental change : assessment and case study of Durban South africa Debra Roberts Climate change mitigation in rapidly developing cities Alexander Aylett Boyd Dionysius Joeman Benoit Lefevre Andrés Luque Ayala Atiqur Rahman Debra Roberts and Sarah Ward Conclusion the road ahead for urbanization and sustainability research Box 1. What we need from an urban science : not only planning but also operations Colin Harrison Box 2. Key concepts for an urban science : urban scaling and cities as social reactors Luis Bettencourt Box 3. The future of the science of cities urbanism and urbanization : the places left behind Colin Harrison Box 4. Urbanization and environmental change in china : challenges and opportunities Weiqi Zhou and Zhiyun Ouyang Box 5. Satellite derived data on global urban human settlements Martino Pesaresi and Thomas Kemper