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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
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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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Efficiency stagnation in global steel production urges joint supply- and demand-side mitigation efforts

Nature Communications, 2021
The effectiveness of large historical efforts for decarbonizing steel production is unclear. Here, the authors show that such efficiency gains were offset by a booming steel demand increase. This has led to a stagnating decarbonization progress over past
Peng Wang, Morten Ryberg, Yi Yang, Kuishuang Feng, Sami Kara, Michael Hauschild, Wei-Qiang Chen   +6 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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Conceptualizing Interactions between SDGs and Urban Sustainability Transformations in Covid-19 Times

Politics and Governance, 2021
Given the potential of cities to contribute to a more sustainable world as framed by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN 2030 Development Agenda, this article focuses on Urban Sustainability Transformations.
K. Krellenberg, F. Koch
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Integration of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Remote Sensing to Assess Threats to Preservation of the Oases: Case of Al Ain, UAE

Land, 2023
Identifying threats to historical sites is important for formulating preventive measures to reduce their impacts. The oases in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), are one of the historical sites and were inscribed as cultural sites in 2011 by UNESCO ...
M. M. Yagoub, Tareefa AlSumaiti, Yacob T. Tesfaldet, Khaled AlArfati, Maythaa Alraeesi, Mariam Eid Alketbi   +5 more
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Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions

Towards a Natural Social Contract, 2021
My research group is involved in collaborations with the dynamic ‘Amsterdam Metropolitan Region (MRA)’ and ‘Rotterdam-The Hague Metropolitan Region (MRDH)’, with the objective to investigate the complex governance challenges and opportunities related to ...
P. Huntjens
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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 ...
Lucie Enochsson, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, A. Plepys, O. Mont   +3 more
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Evaluation and ranking of urban sustainability based on sustainability assessment by fuzzy evaluation model

International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2021
Urban sustainability can be considered as a part of sustainable development, which emphasizes the balance between three dimensions of environmental, economic, and social sustainability to improve human well-being and the quality of life.
M. Robati, F. Rezaei
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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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