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E-book Reconstructing the Future : Cities as Carbon Sinks
A challenge is that transforming these sectors must have a focus on equity because large parts of the world population depend on these two sectors and have their livelihoods connected to them. More than 500 million small farms form part of the world food systems, many of these farm families live in inadequate housing, and many are among the approximately 830 million undernourished people worldwide (Diao et al., 2023). Employment in the construction sec-tor is estimated to be 8.6 percent of total employment globally (ILO2021). About 1.1 billion people live in urban slum settlements, and today more than 56 percent of the world’s population (4.4 billion inhabitants) live in cities. By mid-century about two-thirds are pro-jected to live in cities (UNDESA 2019).With the coming urban population boom, a continued massive ex-pansion of construction and food production is expected. In the Anthropocene — the age in which humankind has become an impor-tant factor influencing the biosphere, the geosphere, and the atmos-phere of the earth — a combination and integration of far-reaching initiatives for more social and technological innovation is necessary. The strategic answer to Anthropocene challenges is an evolution toward a more bio-based economy — a bioeconomy.The need to reintegrate human economic activity into nature’s cycles is widely recognized by now. The challenge of decoupling economic growth from the excessive use of finite resources needs to be tackled. At the same time, shaping the future of work in the digitized, net-worked world offers opportunities in decentralized setups of urban and rural habitat. Consequently, the very concepts of urban and rural, of cities and villages, may become obsolete in the 21st century.
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