Welcome to the urban planet… Issue 5/2006 features an article on the huge challenges of an increasingly urbanised planet. More than half of the world’s people now live in cities and in the coming two decades 95 per cent of the urban growth will take place in cities of the developing world, where social and environmental problems are huge and growing. Moreover, there are articles dealing with: the news that the world’s livestock cause more greenhouse gases than all motor vehicles in the world; the new UNDP-call for making 20 litres of clean water a human right; and seaweed farming in the tropics that might not be so environmentally friendly after all. And much more... open in HTML or PDF >>>