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The city of eThekwini or Durban has undergone a period of rapid urbanization that has contributed to the degradation of … green urban development in Africa: enhancing the relationship between urbanization, environmental assets and ecosystem … context, sets the background, and context of the study of Durban, providing an overview of the impacts of urbanization and …
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"The authors contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of determinants of the performance of cities. They construct a preliminary worldwide database for cities, containing variables and indicators of globalization (at the country and...
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The World Bank is developing a Sustainable Cities Implementation Framework for Europe and Central Asia to inform World Bank and other development partners' ongoing support to national and sub-national authorities in pursuit of Sustainable Cities. As part of this work, preliminary assessments...
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China is experiencing rapid and large scale urbanization, and the resulting local and global urban environmental … sustainable urbanization in line with the objectives of the eleventh five year plan, which calls for 'building a resource … sustainable urbanization model. More than one hundred eco-city initiatives have been launched in recent years. One such initiative …
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choices of equity joint venture (EJV) projects in China. They derive a location choice model from a theoretical framework that … ventures in highly-polluting industries with partners from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan (China). In contrast, joint ventures …
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This report represents a further chapter in the dialogue between the World Bank and the People's Republic of China … about how to promote economic growth and protect China's environment. There are three cross-cutting issues that keep …
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; 2) China may want to use the opportunity of these negotiations to: (a) further discipline its state-owned enterprises … more balanced and sustainable development and taking into account China's high reliance on trade, it may be increasingly in … China's interest to pro-actively engage its partners on environmental issues in its regional trade agreement (RTA …
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