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Environmental Sustainability and the Prosperity of CitiesNevertheless, cities need not wait until full capacityis built before adopting and implementing adequateenvironmental policies and strategies: indeed, in many casescities have managed to enhance overall quality of life despitemodest financial and institutional capacities.policyCities must build those financial and other institutionsrequired to achieve environmental sustainability withoutwhich economic growth will fall short of ensuring shared prosperity.Endnotes1 Mitlin, D., and S. Satterthwaite (1996) Sustainable Development and Cities. In Pugh,C. (ed.) Sustainability, the Environment and Urbanisation, Earthscan, London2 UNEP (1996) Taking Action: Environmental Guide for You and Your Community, UNEP,Nairobi, http://www.nyo.unep.org/action/08f.htm3 UN-Habitat (2003) The Challenge of Slums: Global Report on Human Settlements2003, Earthscan, London4 UN-Habitat (2011a). Cities and Climate Change: Policy Directions, Abridged edition,Earthscan, London.5 Cities Alliance, ICLEI and UNEP (2007) Liveable Cities: The Benefits of UrbanEnvironmental Planning. A Cities Alliance Study on Good Practices and Useful Tools,Cities Alliance, Washington DC.6 Pacione, M. (2003) ‘Urban Environmental Quality and Human Wellbeing; A SocialGeographical Perspective’, Landscape and Urban Planning, vol.65, pp.19-307 WCED (World Commission on Environment and Development) (1987) Our CommonFuture, Oxford University Press, Oxford8 United Nations (1992) Agenda 21: Programme of Action for Sustainable Development,United Nations, New York9 Portney, K. E. and J.M. Berry (2011) Civil Society and Sustainable Cities. Paperprepared for the Princeton Conference on Environmental Politics: Research Frontiersin Comparative and International Environmental Politics, Niehaus Center forGlobalization and Governance, Princeton University, December 2-3, 201110 Lafferty, W.M and Eckerberg, K. (1998) From the Earth Summit to Local Agenda 21:Working Towards Sustainable Development, Earthscan, London.11 Africa Economic Outlook (2012) Macroeconomic Prospects, http://www.africaneconomicoutlook.org/en/outlook/forecast/12 Omenya, A. (2011) City Report on Nairobi, Unpublished UN-Habitat background studyfor “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013”13 Ibid.14 Awuor-Hayanga, R. (2011) City Report on Johannesburg, Unpublished UN-Habitatbackground study for “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013”15 Zaidi, S.S.H. (2011) City Report on Lahore, Unpublished UN-Habitat background studyfor “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013”16 Belliapa, S.G. (2011) City Report on Bangalore, Unpublished UN-Habitat backgroundstudy for “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013”17 Fawaz, M. and N. Baghdadi (2011) City Report on Beirut. Unpublished UN-Habitatbackground study for “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013”18 Khattab, O. (2011) City Report on Kuwait City, Unpublished UN-Habitat backgroundstudy for “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013”19 Ibid.20 Al-Bassam, D. and J. Mouris (2011) City Report on Dubai, Unpublished UN-Habitatbackground study for “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013”21 Urán, H. B. (2011) City Report on Medellín, Unpublished UN-Habitat background studyfor “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013”22 Castellanos, G. (2011) City Report on Santo Domingo, Unpublished UN-Habitatbackground study for “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013”23 Galimberti, L. D. (2011) City Report on Lima, Unpublished UN-Habitat backgroundstudy for “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013”24 Yerro, A. P. (2011) City Report on Fort-De-France, Unpublished UN-Habitatbackground study for “State of the World’s Cities Report 2012/2013”25 Urán, H. B. (2011) op. cit.26 UNEP (2008) UNEP Background Paper on Green Jobs, UNEP, Nairobi27 Simon, D., M. Fragkias, R.Leichenko , R. Sánchez-Rodríguez, K. Seto and B.Solecki(2011) The Green Economy and the Prosperity of Cities, background paper for ‘Stateof the World Cities Report 2012/13’28 UNEP (2011) Renewable energy: Investing in energy and resource efficiency http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/documents/ger/GER_6_RenewableEnergy.pdf29 UNEP (2009) Global Green New Deal, UNEP Policy Brief, http://www.unep.org/pdf/A_Global_Green_New_Deal_Policy_Brief.pdf30 Martinot, E. , A. Chaurey , D. Lew, J. R. Moreira, and N. Wamukonya (2002)‘Renewable Energy Markets in Developing Countries’, Annual Review of Energy andEnvironment, vol. 27, pp. 309-348.31 UNEP, ILO ,IOE and ITUC (2008) Green Jobs: Towards Decent Work in a Sustainable,Low-Carbon World, UNEP, Nairobi32 Peacock, L (2011) ‘Future of jobs: Green industry to create thousands of roles’, TheTelegraph, September 15, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/jobs/8765695/Futureof-jobs-Green-industry-to-create-thousands-of-roles.html33 Shukla, A. (2012) ‘India to create 100 million green jobs’, One World South Asia,February 13, http://southasia.oneworld.net/todaysheadlines/india-to-create-100-million-green-jobs/?searchterm=100%20million%20green%20jobs34 Maia, J., T. Giordano,N. Kelder, G. Bardien, M. Bodibe, P. Du Plooy, X. Jafta, D.Jarvis, E. Kruger-Cloete, G. Kuhn, R. Lepelle, L. Makaulule. K. Mosoma, S. Neoh, N.Netshitomboni, T. Ngozo, and J. Swanepoel, (2011) Green Jobs: An Estimate Of TheDirect Employment Potential Of A Greening South African Economy. IDC/DBSA, Tradeand Industrial Policy strategies35 UNEP, ILO, IOE and ITUC (2008) op. cit.36 HK (2010) Estimating green jobs in Bangladesh: A GHK report for the ILO, http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---emp_ent/documents/publication/wcms_159433.pdf37 Simon, D., M. Fragkias, R.Leichenko, R. Sánchez-Rodríguez, K. Seto and B.Solecki(2011) op.cit.38 ILO (2007) Green jobs initiative in Burkina Faso: From waste to wages, http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/insight/WCMS_084547/lang--en/index.htm39 Simon, D., M. Fragkias, R.Leichenko, R. Sánchez-Rodríguez, K. Seto and B.Solecki(2011) op.cit.40 Ibid.41 Renner, M., S. Sweeney and J. Kubit (2008) ‘Green Jobs: Working for People and theEnvironment’, WorldWatch Report 177, Worldwatch Institute , Washington, DC42 UNEP, ILO, IOE and ITUC (2008) op. cit.43 UNEP, ILO, IOE and ITUC (2008) op. cit.44 UN-Habitat (2011b) Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements2011, Earthscan, London45 Hess, D. and L. Winner (2006) Enhancing Justice and Sustainability at Local Level:Affordable Policies for Urban Governments, http://www.davidjhess.org/PolicyPaper.pdf46 UNCED (1992) Capacity Building: Agenda 21’s definition (Chapter 37), United Nations,New York.87