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Urban Transformations to Keep All the Same: The Power of Ivy Discourses. [PDF]
Antipode, 2022 Abstract The concept of urban transformations has gathered interest among scholars and policymakers calling for radical change towards sustainability. The discourse represents an entry point to address systemic causes of ecological degradation and social injustice, thereby providing solutions to intractable global challenges.
Westman L, Castán Broto V.
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Influence of landfill use on nest‐site selection and breeding success in white storks
Journal of Zoology, Volume 321, Issue 3, Page 175-187, November 2023., 2023 Breeding near landfills may determine habitat preference and selection in white storks, however breeding success depends on habitat quality in the surrounding area more than the distance to the landfill. Abstract Landscape transformation by humans through habitat degradation, agriculture intensification and urbanization results in the loss of natural ...
A. López‐García +2 more
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Matching forerunner cities: Climate policy in Turku, Groningen, Rostock, and Potsdam
Review of Policy Research, Volume 40, Issue 6, Page 1004-1025, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This article analyzes and compares the climate policy and transformation pathways of the forerunner cities Turku (Finland), Groningen (The Netherlands), Rostock, and Potsdam (both located in Germany). Our study combines an international comparison of cities located in three different countries with a national comparison of two German cities ...
Kristine Kern +3 more
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Beyond the flying geese? New patterns, actors, and contestations of policy transfer in East Asia
Asian Politics &Policy, Volume 15, Issue 3, Page 353-368, July 2023., 2023 Abstract East Asian policy transfer and diffusion is conceived as following a “flying geese” model but transformations in the region challenged this hierarchical leader‐follower relationship between countries. Based on the articles in this Special Issue, this article seeks to nuance the flying geese dynamics of policy transfer.
Giulia C. Romano, Kidjie Saguin
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Khalifa versus Prometheus: Green ethics and the struggle for contemporary sustainable urbanism
Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 102-114, Spring 2023., 2023 Abstract In the last decades, contemporary urbanism in the global South has meant large urban transformations, tall architecture landmarks, and fierce city competition. However, cities and their planners are now confronting an ethical dilemma: how to grow and compete while caring for the disastrous impacts on Earth and human health caused by the mass ...
Agatino Rizzo, Attilio Petruccioli
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THE PROMISE OF FOG CAPTURE: Ground‐Touching Clouds as a Material (Im)Possibility in Peru
Cultural Anthropology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 225-250, May 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This article centers on an NGO‐induced fog‐capture project in Lima, Peru. While presented by the NGO as an alternative water‐supply system for residents lacking state infrastructure, the fog catchers ultimately failed to live up to promises about potable water.
CHAKAD OJANI
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The drive to sustainability: A way in which local initiatives diffuse internationally
Politics &Policy, Volume 50, Issue 5, Page 967-991, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article examines how local initiatives can gain international visibility and recognition as well as how they can diffuse to other cities. It explores the leadership of the mayors of Bogotá, Stockholm, and Portland, but also how there were specific contexts that favored the transformations of these cities.
Xira Ruiz‐Campillo
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Una perspectiva raciolingüística desde el Reino Unido
, 2023 Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 27, Issue 5, Page 478-482, November 2023.
Ian Cushing
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De la ciudad a las sociedades urbanas. Procesos sociales y perspectivas analíticas
Encrucijadas: Revista Crítica de Ciencias Sociales, 2021 Los cambios urbanos deben relacionarse con los cambios sociales. Esta afirmación asume que los procesos de transformación urbana son fenómenos a considerar dentro de los procesos generales de transformación social.
Antonio Echaves-García +1 more
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Estrategias de transformación territorial de una “ciudad educadora”.
Proyección, 2023 Desde 1997 la ciudad de Rosario cuenta con políticas públicas de participación ciudadana que incluyen a las infancias como agentes activos para reflexionar sobre el habitar y el accionar en el territorio.
Florencia Fernández Méndez
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