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Sustainable Cities or Cities that Contribute to Sustainable Development? [PDF]
Urban Studies, 1997 This paper outlines a framework for assessing the environmental performance of cities in regard to the meeting of sustainable development goals. It also considers how the environmental goals fit with the social, economic and political goals of sustainable development and the kinds of national framework and international context needed to encourage ...
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2017
This chapter presents three cases that demonstrate a variety of interactions between residents and expert leaders in fostering sustainability innovations in cities. It looks at sustainable cities in Sweden, Japan, and the Netherlands, focusing on common principles that may help explain their success as well as the role of environmental education and ...
Monroe, Martha C. +3 more
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This chapter presents three cases that demonstrate a variety of interactions between residents and expert leaders in fostering sustainability innovations in cities. It looks at sustainable cities in Sweden, Japan, and the Netherlands, focusing on common principles that may help explain their success as well as the role of environmental education and ...
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2010 International Conference on Environmental Engineering and Applications, 2010
The world's climate is changing. The scientific evidence is incontrovertible: most of this change is due to human activity, and the process is speeding up as more and more carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases are pumped into the atmosphere.
Bahram Shakouri +1 more
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The world's climate is changing. The scientific evidence is incontrovertible: most of this change is due to human activity, and the process is speeding up as more and more carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases are pumped into the atmosphere.
Bahram Shakouri +1 more
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The Sustainability of an Entrepreneurial City?
International Planning Studies, 2014AbstractThe paper applies an urban political ecology approach to interrogating the use of sustainability constructs by key international governance agencies. We draw on political economy of urban sustainability to identify central themes in the reports to reveal limitations and contradictions in the deployment of the environmental sustainability ...
Brendan Gleeson, Kathryn Davidson
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2011
How might a city look and its life be lived if it satisfied the requirements for sustainable development? A city, in other words, whose residents used no more than their share of the earth’s resources than what our globe can reasonably endure. That is the main question this book asks.
Mattias Höjer +2 more
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How might a city look and its life be lived if it satisfied the requirements for sustainable development? A city, in other words, whose residents used no more than their share of the earth’s resources than what our globe can reasonably endure. That is the main question this book asks.
Mattias Höjer +2 more
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2003
In the aftermath of the Brundtland Report and the 1992 Rio Earth Summit the concept of sustainability has become a key idea in national and international discussions. Sustainable development is certainly a desirable and, more debatably, an attainable objective in global terms.
Mark R. C. Doughty, Geoffrey P. Hammond
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In the aftermath of the Brundtland Report and the 1992 Rio Earth Summit the concept of sustainability has become a key idea in national and international discussions. Sustainable development is certainly a desirable and, more debatably, an attainable objective in global terms.
Mark R. C. Doughty, Geoffrey P. Hammond
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2002
The analysis of global urban development in the last couple of decades has been greatly influenced by the ‘sustainability debate’ and the increasing recognition that we are all part of one eco-system (Therborn 2000). This debate focuses upon the interplay between the environment and the natural resources it contains — water, energy, soil, air — and the
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The analysis of global urban development in the last couple of decades has been greatly influenced by the ‘sustainability debate’ and the increasing recognition that we are all part of one eco-system (Therborn 2000). This debate focuses upon the interplay between the environment and the natural resources it contains — water, energy, soil, air — and the
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Vancouver: The Sustainable City
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2008Vancouver exemplifies the richness of the many processes that set the civic culture of large contemporary cities. This paper focuses on what drives the social and economic construction of Vancouver, pointing to the complex linkages that tie agents to their environment.
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2017
Le concept de ville durable est défini en le replaçant d’abord dans sa dimension histo-rique avant de préciser les nécessités et les objectifs permettant de réaliser une ville durable.
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Le concept de ville durable est défini en le replaçant d’abord dans sa dimension histo-rique avant de préciser les nécessités et les objectifs permettant de réaliser une ville durable.
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