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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 ...
Kathryn Davidson, Brendan Gleeson
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Urban Affairs Review, 2014
Polycentric theory, as applied to sustainability policy adoption, contends that municipalities will act independently to provide public services that protect the environment. Our multilevel regression analysis of survey responses from 1,497 municipalities across the United States challenges that notion.
Homsy, George C., Warner, Mildred E.
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Polycentric theory, as applied to sustainability policy adoption, contends that municipalities will act independently to provide public services that protect the environment. Our multilevel regression analysis of survey responses from 1,497 municipalities across the United States challenges that notion.
Homsy, George C., Warner, Mildred E.
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Sustainable Cities or Cities that Contribute to Sustainable Development?
Urban Studies, 1997This 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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This book focuses on cities, their relationships with each other and the disparities between them. Analysing cities as the places where diversity is especially apparent, where cultural richness is experienced and where conflicts often erupt, it illustrates how cultures and cultural diversity interact with economic growth and development.
Agbugui Marian Onwude +5 more
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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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2019
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in interactive narrative-based serious games for education and training. A key challenge posed by educational serious games is the balance of fun and learning, so that players are motivated enough to unfold the narrative stories on their own pace while getting sufficient learning materials across.
Ying Tang +6 more
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Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in interactive narrative-based serious games for education and training. A key challenge posed by educational serious games is the balance of fun and learning, so that players are motivated enough to unfold the narrative stories on their own pace while getting sufficient learning materials across.
Ying Tang +6 more
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