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Pathways to Urban Sustainability A Focus on the Houston Metropolitan Region: Summary of a Workshop (2012) / Chapter Skim
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... Program hosted a public workshop to engage federal, academic, and the private sector in a discussion of emerging research on urban systems, and on how understanding humanenvironment interactions and the interplay among energy, water, transportation, and other systems could help decision makers address complex sustainability challenges. Recurring themes from the 2009 workshop included that cities can act as incubators of knowledge, and that bottom-up, place-based solutions are important in creating incentives that link housing and transportation planning in urban areas.
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... Air pollution, especially ozone and particulate matter, has been a persistent threat to human health for decades. And land-use decisions, such as the lack of a formal zoning code in the region, have resulted in a high degree of automobile dependency, traffic congestion, polluted sites (brownfields)
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... • Explore how federal agency efforts, particularly interagency partnerships, can complement or leverage the efforts of other key stakeholders. The workshop was designed to explore the complex challenges facing sustainability efforts in the Houston metropolitan region and innovative approaches to addressing them, as well as performance measures to gauge success and opportunities to link knowledge with action.
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