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solutions are to be identified at a strategic, planning, design and management level to implement sustainability. Architecture …
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indices/methods measure single aspects of sustainability and the more integrated indicators are aimed at national or global … level assessments. A review of existing indicators, methods and models within the context of complex system sustainability … showed that no single existing index, method or model was able to assess sustainability of complex systems. Most fail to …
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sustainability science and new modes of scientific research. Their participation is seen as a means for empowerment and education as … well as for increasing the legitimacy of scientific research. In addition, proponents of sustainability science regard … discussions around sustainability science. It is the objective of the paper to deduce lessons for future approaches to …
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sustainability science and new modes of scientific research. Their participation is seen as a means for empowerment and education as … well as for increasing the legitimacy of scientific research. In addition, proponents of sustainability science regard … discussions around sustainability science. It is the objective of the paper to deduce lessons for future approaches to …
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survival spectrum concept represents a new way to think about sustainability that has clear implications for influencing …, definition, examples and history. The key idea is that sustainability will be effectively addressed in engineering as a further … of sustainability risk management across the engineering professions. The conclusion is that a new, all …
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measurements, such as institutional theory, for example, focusing on agency perspectives, stakeholders, resources, or network …
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A number of international jurisdictions have articulated a longer term goal of zero emission housing standards. However, in Australia, housing energy efficiency remains a contested policy area. In part, this is due to a lack of clear cost-benefit information on low emission housing standards,...
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political agenda. However, sound theoretical background and methodologies to assess sustainability in the field of transport to … industrial estates are scarce. In order to gain insight that may increase the effectiveness of future policies for sustainability …
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The present paper aims to investigate the role of creative practices for settlements, with a special focus on the 'Associations of the Most Beautiful Villages' in France and Italy. The paper focuses on the critical parameters of a locality related to the attractiveness of villages from the...
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Transport is making a very limited contribution to carbon emissions reduction targets in the UK, and this paper argues the case for a substantial shift in thinking away from the concentration on technological alternatives to a revised approach that combines technological efficiency with...
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