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"Everyone is a source of knowledge"

What are the drivers for sustainable urban development? A group of creative practitioners and researchers are trying to find good answers to that question. In the project Business-driven sustainable development, everyone is a source of knowledge and all are worth listening to in order to navigate correctly.

The project is one of five pilot projects that are part of Mistra Urban Futures, which started up in 2010. The contributors are the School of Business, Economics and Law, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Business Region Göteborg, industry and other organisations. Mistra Urban Futures aims to make a real difference to the environment and the lives of people in the world's cities by providing first-class, effective and relevant knowledge in close collaboration with practitioners and researchers.

It is expected that a full 70 percent of the world's populations will live in cities in 2050, which is close to three billion more than today. Therefore, enormous investments will be required during the coming decades in order to manage urban growth in the world. This will involve both challenges and opportunities for managing two of today's greatest threats: climate change and poverty. Sustainable urban development will play a key role here.

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