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Climate change poses a serious challenge to sustainable urban development worldwide. In Sweden, climate change work at the city level emerged in 1996 and has long had a focus on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. City planners’ “adaptation turn” is recent and still ongoing. This paper...

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Sustainability and Competitiveness in Australian Cities

Hu, Richard - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 2, pp. 1840-1860

This study injects sustainability into competitiveness to inform policy making and planning for contemporary urban … concern for environmental sustainability and its relationship with urban competitiveness and their conceptual and … methodological articulations. Empirically, this study measures the sustainability and competitiveness in Australian cities and …

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