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Measuring the Effectiveness of Food Policy Councils in Major Cities in the United States
The United States food system is comprised of a diversity of stakeholders representing a range of sectors including agriculture, health, hospitality, and other sectors of the economy.
Camille Range +3 more
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The Circular Economy is driven by sustainable strategies of management and the reuse of materials and power to try to decrease the demand of resources and minimize the environmental impacts.
Maicon Gonçalves Silva +4 more
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Urban Sustainability: From Theory Influences to Practical Agendas
Achieving sustainability goals is complex and requires policy coherence; yet effective action for structural change has been elusive partly because global issues must be primarily addressed locally.
M. Spiliotopoulou, M. Roseland
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A new study indicates that while the world's cities take up 2% of the Earth's surface, they account for about 78% of the carbon emissions from human activities, 76% of industrial wood use, and 60% of the water tapped for use by people.“These figures suggest that the struggle to achieve an environmentally sustainable economy will be won or lost in the ...
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Previous research has not fully explored socioeconomic factors that influence the Black–White food insecurity disparities at the state and county levels in the United States.
Mya Price, Tia Jeffery
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The Birth of Black Modernism: Building Community Capacity Through Intentional Design
Throughout history, communities have struggled to build homes in places actively hostile to their presence, a challenge long faced by African descendants in the American diaspora.
Eric Harris, Anna Franz, Kathy Dixon
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Birmingham’s Eastside story: making steps towards sustainability? [PDF]
Sustainability has come to play a dominant discursive role in the UK planning system, particularly relating to urban regeneration. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role that sustainability plays in a major regeneration programme, known as ...
Beauregard R. +26 more
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Today, the centrality of cities in the global sustainability challenge is widely acknowledged, and numerous initiatives have been developed worldwide for monitoring and comparing the sustainability performance of urban areas.
A. Merino-Saum +4 more
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Impact of Car Sharing on Urban Sustainability
The article gives us an insight into the key issues of car sharing and its impact on urban sustainability. A selection of 314 articles published in peer-reviewed journals from the Scopus database were analysed using Leximancer 5.0 for Automated Content ...
Vasja Roblek, M. Meško, Iztok Podbregar
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The study presents biodegradable and recyclable mixed‐matrix membranes (MMMs), hydrogels, and cryogels using luminescent nanoscale metal‐organic frameworks (nMOFs) and biopolymers. These bio‐nMOF‐MMMs combine europium‐based nMOFs as probes for the status of the materials with the biopolymers agar and gelatine and present alternatives to conventional ...
Moritz Maxeiner +4 more
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