Modern cities and communities must develop as healthy, harmonious, and sustainable spaces, and professional collaboration plays a key role in achieving these goals, Eleanor Mohammed, Chair of the Habitat Professionals Forum, said at WUF13 in Baku, Report informs.
She stated that the forum was established in 1999 as an interdisciplinary partnership between global professional associations and UN-Habitat, aimed at promoting healthy urbanization and sustainable human development.
Mohammed noted that today the Habitat Professionals Forum unites 27 international professional organizations representing approximately 15 million professionals worldwide, including urban planners, architects, engineers, landscape architects, researchers, health professionals, and educators.
"The organization's mission is to foster professional collaboration and knowledge sharing that help cities and communities around the world unlock their potential and achieve sustainable development," she noted.
According to Mohammed, contemporary challenges, including the impacts of global crises, natural disasters, biodiversity loss, technological change, demographic processes, and the long-term consequences of racism, require integrative and systemic solutions.
She also stated that recovery from global crises and natural disasters must be addressed holistically and interrelatedly.