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Port cities as hubs for trade and exchange show the extremes of rapid growth and catastrophic decline: they show the complex and interconnected problems of change in urban systems, and the challenge of maintaining local 'sustainable wealth' and prosperity. This suggests a transition from a...
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The article describes the evaluation model for cultural heritage in spatial planning, created in the shifting perspective from a static-contemplative to a dynamic-planning understanding of the heritage. The shift is manifested in the creation of the model which allows analysis, diagnosis,...
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Our research empirically explores the relative importance of firm size in fostering economic growth by using cross-sectional variation in the relative location of large and small firms in urban centres of employment. Our method compares the relative location of large and small firms between the...
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The cultural sector of a city contributes in a variety of ways to promoting the livability, vitality and sustainability … investment in urban heritage. Finally, the issue of sustainability is considered with reference to the notion of culturally … sustainable development, which implies the long-term management of cultural resources such that the basic sustainability …
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Proceeding from the empirical data analysis carried out for Ukraine and 37 other European countries, the author has traced a quadratic relation between the greenhouse gases emission level (at the example of CO<SUB align="right">2</SUB>) and the economic development. The analysis focused on researching the possibility...</sub>
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from the European experience of the past. Alleviation of poverty is essential for the sustainability of the global …
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This paper considers the influence of uncertainty with respect to GDP and population total and age structure on long-run environmental impact projections. A simple model, based on the stochastic version of the IPAT equation, is used to generate projections of two environmental impacts for which...
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Over a century back, while commenting on the rapid urbanisation process in Europe, the great philosopher and sociologist in Marxist tradition, Lefebvre (1996, p.119) had stated that "the expanding city attacks the countryside, corrodes and dissolves it". In Indian context, the above statement...
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to cause substantial adjustments. We present an analysis to test the simple demographic sustainability hypothesis that … this development will improve sustainability of economic activities. For this purpose implicit adjustments of … changes. Nevertheless spatial heterogeneity poses a serious challenge to the definition of sustainability. …
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China's natural gas demand is expected to grow rapidly in the coming decades. Therefore the potential of several pipelines from Russia and other CIS countries to China has been investigated. A two-step game-theoretic procedure for the problem formulation is proposed to assess the projects'...
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