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Measuring the Effectiveness of Food Policy Councils in Major Cities in the United States

open access: yesFoods, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

The role of online platforms to enable the process of industrial symbiosis: An analysis of tools available in the market

open access: yesCleaner Production Letters, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Sustainability: From Theory Influences to Practical Agendas

open access: yesSustainability, 2020
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban sustainability [PDF]

open access: yesEos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1999
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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

An Analysis of Socioeconomic Determinants of the Black–White Disparity in Food Insecurity Rates in the US

open access: yesFoods, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

The Birth of Black Modernism: Building Community Capacity Through Intentional Design

open access: yesBuildings
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
doaj   +1 more source

Birmingham’s Eastside story: making steps towards sustainability? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
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
core   +2 more sources

Indicators for urban sustainability: Key lessons from a systematic analysis of 67 measurement initiatives

open access: yes, 2020
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of Car Sharing on Urban Sustainability

open access: yesSustainability, 2020
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Biodegradable and Recyclable Luminescent Mixed‐Matrix‐Membranes, Hydrogels, and Cryogels based on Nanoscale Metal‐Organic Frameworks and Biopolymers

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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