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What Local Climate Change Plans Can Teach Us About City Power [PDF]

, 2009
Discussions of city power have long focused on cities’ power relative to higher levels of government and to each other. The diffuse causes of climate change offer an opportunity to revisit the question of city power by focusing more closely on the ...
Trisolini, Katherine A.
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SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES [PDF]

Cities are the biggest challenge for judging the validity and applicability of concepts of and policies for sustainable development. The importance of cities is based not solely on demographic grounds, but on economic, political and social grounds as ...
Kinga SOLTÉSZ
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Global Survival

Nordicom Review, 2012
Confronted with serious challenges to human survival, communication should be mobilized to rescue the planet’s future. This requires the development of new forms of discursive power that shift from a culture of fear to a culture of hope.
Hamelink Cees J.
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Analysis of the meteorological factors affecting the short-term increase in O₃ concentrations in nine global cities during COVID-19. [PDF]

Atmos Pollut Res, 2022
Bi Z, Ye Z, He C, Li Y.
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THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL DYNAMICS TO URBAN HIERARCHY: COMPROMISING CITIES INSTEAD OF COMPETITIVE CITIES [PDF]

Especially after 1990ââ¬â¢s, important results have emerged with the rapid transformation process in the world by the concept of globalization. It is emphasized that cities are the center of spatial transformation where the globalization mostly effected.
Ebru Seckin, Elif Ornek Ozden, Senem Kozaman   +2 more
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Editorial: Building More Sustainable and Resilient Urban Energy Infrastructures

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022
Shaoqing Chen, Shaoqing Chen, Ali Kharrazi, Ali Kharrazi, Jin Yang   +4 more
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Contrasting Iran's air quality improvement during COVID-19 with other global cities. [PDF]

J Environ Health Sci Eng, 2021
Yazdani M, Baboli Z, Maleki H, Birgani YT, Zahiri M, Chaharmahal SSH, Goudarzi M, Mohammadi MJ, Alam K, Sorooshian A, Goudarzi G.   +10 more
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Global environmental governance: the role of local governments [PDF]

, 2011
This repository item contains a single issue of Sustainable Development Insights, a series of short policy essays that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. The series seeks
Otto-Zimmermann, Konrad
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Transit border lives and blurring solidarities

Frontiers in Human Dynamics
This article discusses Transit Border Lives and Blurring Solidarities in relation to the main findings presented in the book “A Message to You. A Cartography of Mobilities. Sexual Border Violence, Solidarities, and Global Cities”.
Natalia Ribas-Mateos
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Tall buildings have productivity benefits for workers and prestige for firms. No wonder firms are willing to pay a premium to work in them. [PDF]

, 2011
In spite of the global recession, London and many other large cities are experiencing a major period of skyscraper construction. Discussing a new report, Max Nathan finds that tall buildings may make workers more productive and give firms a ‘prestige ...
Nathan, Max
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