Yudu - Green Economy - Cities

Towards a green economy Acknowledgements

Chapter Coordinating Authors: Philipp Rode, Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; and Ricky Burdett, Professor of Urban Studies and Director, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Vera Weick and Moustapha Kamal Gueye (in the initial stages of the project) of UNEP managed the chapter, including the handling of peer reviews, interacting with the coordinating authors on revisions, conducting supplementary research and bringing the chapter to final production. Sheng Fulai conducted preliminary editing of the chapter.

Contributing authors: Edgar Pieterse, Director, African Centre for Cities and Professor of Urban Policy, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Brinda Viswanathan, Associate Professor, Madras School of Economics, Chennai, India; Geetam Tiwari, Professor for Transport Planning, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India; Dimitri Zenghelis, Director, Climate Change Practice, Cisco and Visiting Fellow, Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; Debra Lam, Senior Policy Consultant, ARUP, London and Hong Kong; and Xin Lu, Partner, International Building Organisation, Shanghai, China.

LSE Research Team: Antoine Paccoud; Megha Mukim; Gesine Kippenberg and James Schofield, all LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Additional authors: Max Nathan, Research Fellow, LSE Cities and PhD Candidate, Spatial Economics Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; Gavin Blyth, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; Michelle Cullen, PhD candidate, LSE Cities Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK; and

Joerg Spangenberg, PhD candidate, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Project coordination: Daniela Tanner, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

We would like to thank the many colleagues and individuals who commented on the Review Draft, including Andrea Bassi (Millennium Institute), Karin Buhren (UN Habitat), Maike Christiansen (UNEP), Marie-Alexandra Coste (Caisse de Dépots as Member of UNEP FI Property Working Group), Daniel Hoornweg (World Bank), Ana Lucía Iturriza (ILO), Ariel Ivanier (UNECE), Gulelat Kebede (UN Habitat), Markus Lee (World Bank), Tan Siong Leng (Urban Development Institute, Singapore), Esteban Leon (UN Habitat), Robert McGowan, Carolina Proano, Alexis Robert (OECD), Susanne Salz (ICLEI), Synnove Lyssand Sandberg, Sanjeev Sanyal (Sustainable Planet Institute), David Satterthwaite (IIED), Christian Schlosser, (UN Habitat), Soraya Smaoun (UNEP), Niclas Svenningsen (UNEP), Mark Swilling (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa), Kaarin Taipale (Marrakech Task Force on Sustainable Buildings and Construction), Raf Tuts (UN Habitat), Edmundo Werna (ILO), and Xing Quan Zhang (UN Habitat).

Additional comments were provided as part of the public review process by colleagues in the IMF, UNFPA and ICLEI.

We also would like to thank the individuals who assisted in the research and/or editing process, including Henry Abraham, Ishwarya Balasubramanian (MSE), Stephen Barrett (RSH+P), Richard Brown, Andrea Colantonio (LSE), Omer Cavusoglu (LSE), David Dodman (IIED), Nicky Gavron (GLA), Frederic Gilli (SciencePo), Anjula Gurtoo (IISB), Atakan Guven (LSE), Miranda Iossifidis (LSE), Jens Kandt (LSE), Claire Mookerjee (LSE), Martin Mulenga (IIED), Alex Payne (LSE), Emma Rees (LSE), Peter Schwinger (LSE), Natza Tesfay (LSE), and Rick Wheal (Arup).

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