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Abstract Halting biodiversity loss, mitigating global warming and maintaining the long‐term viability of rural and urban areas requires urgent policy action. However, environmental policies often trigger resistance and highly polarised public debates, with some actors employing pseudo‐scientific claims.
Guy Pe'er+22 more
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Urban sustainability commitment: Actor constellations and motivations
Abstract In recent years, cities have increasingly committed to sustainable urban development, despite it being a voluntary task. This paper investigates the causes behind this commitment by focusing on local policy‐makers and their motivation rather than viewing cities as unitary actors.
Svenja Katharina Schwarz+1 more
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European Capitals of Culture as a tool of enhancing economic development and urban branding, a proposal for Tbilisi, Georgia [PDF]
Se analiza el desarrollo económico producido por ser capitales culturales, el impacto urbano y socioeconómico que conlleva.
Gavasheli, Ana
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Achieving sustainability and resilience depends on the conciliation of environmental, social, and economic issues integrated into a long-term perspective to ensure communities flourish.
François Simon+13 more
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Configuración espacial de la ciudad de Cartago y su relación con volúmenes vehiculares
La sintaxis espacial estudia la configuración de elementos espaciales y las relaciones entre ellos. Para una ciudad, estos elementos son las calles que forman su red de caminos.
Marcos Alberto Martínez Martínez+1 more
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ABSTRACT To tackle lasting rural poverty and fully eradicate absolute poverty by 2020, the Chinese government introduced the “targeted poverty alleviation” (TPA) policy in 2013. Quantitative assessments prove the policy's success; yet multidimensional aspects and subjective perceptions of rural poverty are insufficiently accounted for.
Lisa Hoeschle, Shuang Liu, Xiaohua Yu
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Desarrollo urbano sostenible y criterios de diseño urbano [PDF]
DESARROLLO URBANO SOSTENIBLE Y CRITERIOS DE DISEÑO URBANO .- Consecuencias de la urbanización sobre el territorio .- Principales problemas del crecimiento actual .- El desarrollo sostenible .- Diez principios para el desarrollo ...
Higueras García, Ester
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Changing Times at Cuban Universities: Looking into the Transition towards a Social, Entrepreneurial and Innovative Organization [PDF]
Since the 1990s, the socialist higher education system has faced several reforms oriented to satisfy the social, economic, and technological demands. However, little is known about the transformation process of the socialist university system over the ...
Cruz-Amarán, Damaris+2 more
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Rural Vulnerabilities in Southern Spain: Beyond Material Deprivation
ABSTRACT Research on vulnerability has mainly focused on urban contexts, which has shaped and conditioned the research that has been developed in rural contexts. In this sense, research in rural contexts is not only scarce but also limited in several respects: (1) in the concept of vulnerability (almost exclusively limited to material deprivation and ...
Auxiliadora González‐Portillo+1 more
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El ordenamiento urbano como estrategia del desarrollo sustentable
Objetivo. A través del concepto de funcionalidad estratégica se analiza la influencia del ordenamiento urbano en el desarrollo sustentable de las ciudades, tomando como referencia el caso de Oaxaca, México, durante 2000-2015.
A. M. Velasco+3 more
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