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Land, 2021 Can sustainability and liveability be simultaneously pursued at the neighbourhood level? Adopting neighbourhood satisfaction as a proxy to indicate liveability at the neighbourhood scale, this paper investigated how the residential subjective perception ...
Qi Zhang +2 more
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Public Green Infrastructure Contributes to City Livability: A Systematic Quantitative Review
Land, 2018 Consistent with the Land Urbanism and Green Infrastructure theme of this special issue of Land, the primary goal of this review is to provide a plain language overview of recent literature that reports on the psychological, physiological, general well ...
Jackie Parker, Greg D. Simpson
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, 2014 A growing body of evidence indicates that the environmental quality of residential neighbourhoods hasan impact on their liveability. It can be a contributory factor to the prosperity and development of citiesbecause it reflects the real-life experiences ...
Faizi, Mohsen +3 more
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Housing adaptability: new research, emerging practices and challenges
Buildings & Cities, 2022 Highlights The underlying issues of why housing adaptability is important today are introduced, together with the drivers and barriers to uptake. This editorial explains the different kinds of adaptability (environmental, spatial, social and multi-use(r))
Sofie Pelsmakers, Elanor Warwick
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Outer suburban/interface services and development committee inquiry into liveability options in outer suburban Melbourne [PDF]
, 2012 This report presents a range of options for enhancing the liveability of Melbourne’s outer suburbs. Melbourne has an international reputation as one of the world’s most liveable cities.
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Understanding the Importance of Urban Amenities: A Case Study from Auckland
Buildings, 2015 Along with many Pacific Rim cities in Australia and North America, Auckland, New Zealand has enacted an urban growth management strategy premised on two concepts: “liveability” and a “quality compact city”.
Natalie Allen
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Indigenous wellbeing theories offer potential to better measure social and cultural determinants. This scoping review aimed to identify the types of metrics used by the Australian government to assess wellbeing and evaluate the alignment of current frameworks against Indigenous and non‐Indigenous conceptualisations of wellbeing.
Sophie Wright‐Pedersen +5 more
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Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 Local knowledge of spatiotemporal patterns of liveability is vital for choosing where to live and where revitalisation efforts must concentrate. We employed transdisciplinary learning to identify 12 liveability indicators and applied them to assess the ...
Alex Barimah Owusu +5 more
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Harmonizing Social Impact Assessment in the Bioeconomy: A Cross‐Regional Fuzzy‐Delphi Approach
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The bioeconomy transition risks underrepresenting social sustainability, while existing Social Life Cycle Assessment (S‐LCA) applications remain insufficient for comparison and decision support due to heterogeneous and non‐standardized selection of social impact categories. This study proposes a cross‐regional baseline set of impact categories
Julia Lessa Feitosa Virgolino +2 more
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Power, (De)Politicisation and Polycentric Governance: Evidence From UK Local Climate Policy
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article extends (de)politicisation theory to elucidate power dynamics in polycentric governance. It develops an original analytical framework to empirically investigate how governmental, societal and discursive (de)politicisation processes emerge within and across decision‐making centres. The framework focuses on dimensions of technocracy,
Timea Nochta +2 more
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