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In creating a manifesto for BioCities, this book proposes that a city acting as a nature-based socio-ecological system will also be building resilience to climate change and other stresses and risks (Biggs et al. 2015). This thinking has been adapted into four basic principles for a BioCity (Fig. 1).
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Davies, C., Salbitano, F., Scarascia-Mugnozza, G.E., Borelli, S. (2023). Towards BioCities: The Pathway to Transition. In: Scarascia-Mugnozza, G.E., Guallart, V., Salbitano, F., Ottaviani Aalmo, G., Boeri, S. (eds) Transforming Biocities. Future City, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29466-2_12
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