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Rotterdam Area, Netherlands Netherlands

Arcadis Europe

Education

Cities have with their (ecological) footprint a huge effect on (change) the entire ecology of the planet. As cities expand and necessarily in transnational economy driven by interrelated (social, economic, financial, formal and informal, cultural, etc.) and through a continuous exchange of materials, energy, knowledge and abilities, they reconstruct the ecological systems. Their scale creates new dynamics, new complexity and new simultaneity of events and processes – physical, social and economic. They host intense and complex interactions between different demographic, social, political, economic and ecological processes. (Mega)cities undergoing economic boom times often generate consid...