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7 The Way Forward: Future Needs and Opportunities
Pages 51-54

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... Several speakers discussed the need for interdisciplinary approaches for addressing urban challenges, especially the value of bringing a different allied lens to the table. There is a need to be creative in bringing in other disciplines to face sustainability challenges, for example, the humanities, design and art, and psychology.
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... Several speakers discussed the critical importance of spatial and temporal scales in urban sustainability challenges; in fact, several speakers noted that the wrong answers may result if the same spatial or temporal scales are assumed. It is clear that context matters and what is applicable across different places will differ.
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... Students, at least in the United States, learn a lot about how the national government works; however, most children probably do not learn about the geography of their local city and may have no idea how their local cities are run. There is a big shift that needs to take place in thinking about urban sustainability and training the next generation, stated Dr.
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