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SWOT Analysis and Developing Strategies for the Realisation of Urban Livability in Tehran

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2021
The present study aims to analyse the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of managing the Tehran Metropolitan to help comprehend the status quo as well as the challenges to the realisation of liveability indicators.
Reza Shabanzadeh Namini, Mirella Loda, Abolfazl Meshkini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Claudia Coutinho‐Nóbrega, Nicholas M. Holden   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

MXene‐Induced Selective Ion Separation in Capacitive Deionization: Bridging Fundamentals With Frontier Innovations

Electron, EarlyView.
This review presents an in‐depth analysis of employing the MXenes electrodes in advancing ion‐selective capacitive deionization technologies, by exploring various strategies to achieve the desired selectivity. It highlights the critical challenges that hinder scalability and practical implementation. The review showcases the future opportunities toward
Rahat Alam, Linda Zou, Louis C. P. M. de Smet, Constantinos V. Chrysikopoulos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Water, Sanitation and Health: The World Bank's Financing of Sustainable Development Goal 6

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The World Bank has an explicit commitment to financing projects aimed at ensuring access to drinking water and sanitation (SDG 6), given their implications for countries' development. The objective of this study is to analyse its performance over the past decades, in order to understand the evolution of the allocated amount and the ...
Cristina Martínez‐Gómez, Leticia Gallego‐Valero, Encarnación Moral‐Pajares   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Aligned Are Citizen Preferences With the 15‐Minute Cities Paradigm? An International Survey and K‐Means Clustering Study

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how citizens' mobility preferences align with the principles of the 15‐Minute City (15mC), addressing three research questions: what access times and transport modes citizens consider acceptable, whether mobility preference can be clustered, and which services are perceived incompatible with the 15mC.
Maria Perales‐Eguiluz, A. Divasson‐J, Nekane Ione Sainz Bedoya, Cruz E. Borges   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multidimensional disparities in urban liveability across Chinese non-core cities: a typological exploration based on carbon emissions differences

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Decarbonisation has increasingly become a major policy direction globally, deeply intertwined with urban socio-economic development. However, the connection between such a process and urban liveability remains underexplored.
Yizhao Du
doaj   +1 more source

Towards Liveability in Historic Centres: Challenges and Enablers of Transformation in Two Latvian Towns

Urban Planning, 2023
This article describes two Latvian towns, Cēsis and Bauska, which have medieval origins and noticeable layers of subsequent historic periods. Both of their town centres have historic heritage protection status and a complex mixture of values, needs, and ...
Margarita Vološina, Evija Taurene, Pēteris Šķiņķis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tourism Specialisation and Sustainable Development Performance in Spanish Cities

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tourism specialisation and sustainable development performance are key dimensions of urban sustainability debates. This study investigates the association between tourism specialisation and sustainable development performance, operationalised through the sustainable development goals (SDGs), in Spanish cities.
Ana‐María Ríos, María‐Dolores Guillamón, Bernardino Benito   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source