framework for assessing city plans based on the idea of sustainability and planning countering climate change. It applies this … concepts that were identified through conceptual analyses of the planning and interdisciplinary literature on sustainability … to planning, creating a need to rethink and revise current planning methods. This paper proposes a new conceptual …

people readily available assets through which environmental sustainability can be implemented. Yet, people’s conservation … development is rarely planned using cultural resources. It is against this background that a Community-Based Cultural Heritage … (consumption) that distinguish specific components of cultural heritage resources to be monitored at level IV for sustainability …

diverse and slippery meanings and uses of sustainability in the post-crisis development assistance architecture. …The most recent global food crisis has forced development agencies in the global North to rethink the nexus between … agricultural development, food aid, and food security, and how development assistance strategies can enhance food security to more …

study explores possible pathways to sustainability by considering in quantitative detail four contrasting scenarios for the … twenty-first century. The analysis reveals vividly the risks of conventional development approaches and the real danger of … value changes for getting there. A fundamental shift in the development paradigm is found to be an urgent necessity for …

in interaction with the environment and its built-in systemic features that contradict long-term sustainable development …. These features include: (a) contradictions in the origin and meaning of sustainability; (b) the central role of the … continued promotion of expanding consumption; (d) globalism and the contradictions of continued Western-style development; and …

Sustainability typically involves the balancing of three major factors: the economy, the environment, and some notion …

Energy transition is expected to make an important contribution to sustainable development. Although it is argued that …

sustainable development with scenario planning resulted in an interpretation of sustainability that is more appropriate for local …Urban sustainability involves a re-examination of urban development including environmental, social and economic … policies and practices that acknowledge the role of cities in global environmental change. However, sustainability remains a …

territorial approach to development planning in a remote area will be more successful than a top down industry based approach [1 … marketplace, and are perceived by industry to possess limited development opportunities. Accordingly a community orientated and …

In 1991, development economist and American public intellectual Albert O. Hirschman wrote the <i>Rhetoric of Reaction … are seen to exist to approaching sustainable development. I will demonstrate the pervasiveness of arguments that our best … attempts to move toward sustainability in our cities today may present threats that are just as grave as those of not acting …