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Interconnected responses for interconnected problems: synergistic pathways for sustainable wealth in port cities

Ravetz, Joe - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 13 (2014) 2/3/4, pp. 362-388

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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Evaluation model for cultural heritage in spatial planning

Mrak, Iva - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 13 (2014) 2/3/4, pp. 206-234

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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Entrepreneurship and economic development: the relative attraction of employment centres by firm size

Craig, Steven G.; Kohlhase, Janet E.; Perdue, Adam - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 13 (2014) 2/3/4, pp. 281-293

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 role of culture in sustainable urban development: some economic issues

Throsby, David - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 13 (2014) 2/3/4, pp. 89-99

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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Applying Kuznets theory to the analysis of relation between the economic development and greenhouse gas emission

Tunytsya, Taras Y. - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 9 (2009) 1/2, pp. 89-102

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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Poverty-environment-development nexus

Parikh, Jyoti - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 2 (2002) 3/4, pp. 344-365

from the European experience of the past. Alleviation of poverty is essential for the sustainability of the global …

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Long-run projections of environmental impact in the OECD: the importance of uncertainty and age structure

Liddle, Brantley - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 11 (2011) 3/4, pp. 200-217

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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Regional development in neo-liberal era: a missed opportunity for sustainable development

Sharma, R.N. - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 11 (2011) 3/4, pp. 255-270

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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Analysing the impact of demographic development on sustainability via infrastructure networks

Geske, Joachim; Kuckshinrichs, Wilhelm; Kronenberg, Tobias - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 11 (2011) 3/4, pp. 310-335

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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Modelling competition between natural gas pipeline projects to China

Krey, Volker; Minullin, Yaroslav - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 10 (2010) 1/2, pp. 143-171

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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