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Conference Proceedings, 2023 ABSTRACT This study analyses the publicly available Sustainable Cities Index (SCI) 2023 indicators produced by Corporate Knights Inc. The index, which is typically based on statistical data, examines the sustainability of seventy major cities in the world and characterizes it with scores. These are the subject of the research just described. The aim of
Ngamba, Divin Eyir +2 more
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9° Congresso Città e Territorio Virtuale, Roma, 2, 3 e 4 ottobre 2013, 2014 Can low-cost housing contribute to sustainable development?
Zaid, Suzaini, Graham, Peter
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Towards Sustainable Cities [PDF]
Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy, 2017 Cities of the future should be sustainable, knowledge and innovation oriented, technology-enabled in order to support development and value creation for citizens, businesses, communities, and society. Cities as sustainable organizations should proceed by adopting a smart cities approach as a vision and strategic perspective driving the future urban ...
André Sorensen +2 more
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Cities as nuclei of sustainability? [PDF]
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 2016 We have assembled CO2 emission figures from collections of urban GHG emission estimates published in peer-reviewed journals or reports from research institutes and non-governmental organizations. Analyzing the scaling with population size, we find that the exponent is development dependent with a transition from super- to sub-linear scaling.
Rybski, D. +5 more
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On Sustainable|Sustaining City Streets [PDF]
Sustainability, 2021 City streets have long been the subject and context for research [...]
Ken Tamminga, Thomas Knüvener
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Manual para la promoción de la Inversión Extranjera Directa a nivel subnacional en mercados emergentes [PDF]
, 2009 Este manual está diseñado como una herramienta práctica destinada a asistir a aquellas ciudades con recursos escasos a incrementar el nivel de inversiones general y, en particular, a atraer Inversión Extranjera Directa (IED).
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A Review of Experimental and Numerical Studies of Lithium Ion Battery Fires
Applied Sciences, 2021 Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are used extensively worldwide in a varied range of applications. However, LIBs present a considerable fire risk due to their flammable and frequently unstable components. This paper reviews experimental and numerical studies
Matt Ghiji +2 more
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Fire, 2022 Firebrand spotting is a potential threat to people and infrastructure, which is difficult to predict and becomes more significant when the size of a fire and intensity increases.
Amila Wickramasinghe +2 more
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Multi-objective multi-criteria evolutionary algorithm for multi-objective multi-task optimization
Complex & Intelligent Systems, 2022 Evolutionary multi-objective multi-task optimization is an emerging paradigm for solving multi-objective multi-task optimization problem (MO-MTOP) using evolutionary computation.
Ke-Jing Du +3 more
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Infrastructures, 2022 Infrastructure advancement is a key attribute that defines the development and effective growth of a city or region. Since the introduction of the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (UN SDGs), more construction companies are focusing on ...
Malindu Sandanayake +2 more
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