Por Franz Gatzweiler (Executive director of the 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme on “Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: a Systems Approach," created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the United Nations University (UNU) and the Interacademy Partnership (IAP).

Problems of urban health and well-being emerge from complex interactions in changing environments and are prominent challenges for inhabitant, adding radical uncertainty to global development. To understand their consequences in urban systems and to establish effective problem-solving mechanisms, insights from complexity science require a fundamental rethinking of the role and responsibility of the human agency.

Conferência no âmbito do Doutoramento em Alterações Climáticas e Políticas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável.