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Big Data-Driven Urban Management: Potential for Urban Sustainability

Land, 2022
With the world’s rapidly growing urbanization, urban sustainability is now expected for urban life. Due to this rapid growth, meeting the emerging challenges for urban management and sustainability worldwide is challenging.
Min Wu, Bingxin Yan, Ying Huang, Md Nazirul Islam Sarker   +3 more
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Monitoring the contribution of urban agriculture to urban sustainability: an indicator-based framework

, 2021
In an increasingly urbanized world, urban agriculture and community gardening are promoted as lever for sustainable urban development. Urban agriculture contributes to food security, provides health benefits for the population, fosters social inclusion ...
C. Tapia, L. Randall, Shinan Wang, L. Borges   +3 more
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Global South Urbanisms and Urban Sustainability—Challenges and the Way Forward

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2021
The “Cities of the Global South” section of Frontiers in Sustainable Cities is the first journal section to focus explicitly on urban issues in the Global South.
G. Arku, L. Marais
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Experimentation Platforms as Bridges to Urban Sustainability

Smart Cities, 2021
Despite immense efforts to realize diverse visions of the ‘smart city,’ municipalities still face manifold uncertainties of how governance and the tools of governance can best support public and regional value creation for achieving urban sustainability.
Sven-Volker Rehm, Shane J. McLoughlin, G. Maccani   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Conceptualising sustainability in UK urban Regeneration: a discursive Formation [PDF]

, 2011
Despite the wide usage and popular appeal of the concept of sustainability in UK policy, it does not appear to have challenged the status quo in urban regeneration because policy is not leading in its conceptualisation and therefore implementation.
Atkinson, R., Austin Barber, BCC, BCC, BCC, BCC, BCC (Birmingham City Council), Burningham, D., Chanan, G., Chartered Institute of Housing and Royal Town Planning Institute, Chris D.F. Rogers, D. Rachel Lombardi, Daily, G., Detr, DETR (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions), Ecotec, Edward Cullinan Architects and David McLean Developments, Ehrenfeld, J., English Partnerships, ESAG (Eastside Sustainability Advisory Group), Evans, B., Fordham, G., Haughton, G., isis, Le Heron, R., Libby Porter, Loftman, P., Loftman, P., Lovelock, J., Meadows, D.H., Millennium Assessment, Moffatt, I., Moulaert, F., NSF (National Science Foundation), Odpm, Odpm, ODPM (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister), OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), Owens, S., O’Riordan, T., Porter, L., PRESUD (Peer Review for European Sustainable Urban Development), Reid, D., Rydin, Y., Rydin, Y., SDC, SDC (Sustainable Development Commission), Smith, N., Swyngedouw, E., UK Government, WCED (World Commission on Environment and Development)   +50 more
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Harnessing sensing systems towards urban sustainability transformation

npj Urban Sustainability, 2021
Recent years have seen a massive development of geospatial sensing systems informing the use of space. However, rarely do these sensing systems inform transformation towards urban sustainability.
A. Grêt-Regamey, Michael Switalski, Nora Fagerholm, Silviya Korpilo, S. Juhola, M. Kyttä, N. Käyhkö, T. McPhearson, Markus Nollert, Tiina E. Rinne, Niko Soininen, T. Toivonen, Aleksi Räsänen, Elias S Willberg, C. Raymond   +14 more
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Urban sustainability assessment: An overview and bibliometric analysis

Ecological Indicators, 2020
Following the recognition of the significance of urban areas for achieving sustainable development in the late 1980′s, first studies on ‘urban sustainability assessment’ were published in early 1990s.
Ayyoob Sharifi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Intentionality and visibility in state- and society-led climate approaches: towards a more comprehensive understanding of local adaptation initiatives [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica, 2023
Research into local climate adaptation has often focused on highly visible, intentional public policies that seek to improve resilience to climate threats or how societal actors have reacted to changing climatic conditions. We argue that these approaches
P. Eckersley, P. Eckersley, W. Haupt, V. Wiegleb, J. Niewind, A. Otto   +5 more
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Impacts of the Sharing Economy on Urban Sustainability: The Perceptions of Municipal Governments and Sharing Organisations

, 2021
By changing the institutionalised practices associated with resource distribution, the sharing economy could support sustainable urban transformations. However, its impacts on urban sustainability are unknown and contested, and key actors hold different ...
L. Enochsson, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, A. Plepys, O. Mont   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Wastewater Discharge Standards in the Evolving Context of Urban Sustainability–The Case of India

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020
Across the world, recent decades have witnessed large scale and rapid urbanization. Centralized wastewater treatment is typically considered the most desirable solution to meet domestic wastewater treatment needs in growing urban centers.
Tatjana Schellenberg, Vrishali Subramanian, G. Ganeshan, D. Tompkins, R. Pradeep   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source