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Leadership in environmental and energy design : a true sustainable development model? [PDF]
, 2013 Suburban sprawl and sustainable development has received increasing worldwide attention over the past few decades. In 1998, sustainable development principles were codified in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification system.
Loser, Christopher Jay
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A GIS-based model to assess electric energy consumptions and usable renewable energy potential in Lazio region at municipality scale [PDF]
, 2019 The ongoing energy transition processes need a rapprochement between the places of energy production and consumption with the aim of creating innovative and integrated territorial models.
Astiaso Garcia, Davide +2 more
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The Integration of Socio-Economic Indicators in the CASBEE-UD Evaluation System: A Case Study
Urban Science, 2018 The use of tools to measure the degree of sustainability of cities is the approach that receives the most attention in developed countries. However, studies of evaluation tools at the neighborhood level reveal that there are many weaknesses in the most ...
Francesco Cappai +2 more
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Mix Sustentável, 2017 O crescimento urbano desordenado é, hoje, um problema global. Neste contexto, a avaliação de desempenho, por meio de ferramentas para a certificação de desenvolvimento urbano sustentável, surge como uma alternativa para orientar desenvolvedores ...
Paola Figueiredo +3 more
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Greening Historic DC: Challenges and Opportunities to Incorporate Historic Preservation into the District\u27s Drive for Sustainable Development [PDF]
, 2009 This paper focuses primarily on the District of Columbia, a city with a robust past and a bold agenda for a sustainable future. However, it may not be obvious why historic preservation - a movement typically concerned with aesthetics - can play an ...
Stein, Andrew
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Comparing Two Residential Suburban Areas in the Costa Blanca, Spain [PDF]
, 2016 The Costa Blanca in the province of Alicante (Spain) represents an emblematic example of suburban development around Mediterranean medium-sized cities, with the existence of a wide range of residential settlements devoted both to the native population ...
Martí Ciriquián, Pablo +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Across garment factories in the Global South, the promise of “ethical fashion” coexists with poverty wages and retaliation. This study examines why the global call for decent work has not improved labor conditions in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry.
Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana
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Energy and Smart Growth: It's about How and Where We Build [PDF]
, 2004 By efficiently locating development, smarter growth land use policies and practices offer a viable way to reduce U.S. energy consumption. Moreover, by increasing attention on how we build, in addition to where we build, smart growth could become even ...
Naomi Friedman
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Wafer‐Scale Self‐Limiting Epitaxy of Bernal‐Stacked Single‐Crystal Boron Nitride
Small, EarlyView.Wafer‐scale, single‐crystal Bernal‐stacked boron nitride (bBN) bilayers are grown by flow‐modulated MOCVD, where monoatomic Ni step edges on Ni(111) deterministically direct AB stacking. As an ultrathin interlayer, bBN suppresses interfacial scattering and enables robust, nonvolatile polarization switching in MoS2 channels, offering a scalable platform
Jaewon Wang +22 more
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