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China's national leaders have recently made a priority of changing lanes from a pollution-intensive, growth …-at-any-cost model to a resource-efficient and sustainable one. The immense challenges of rapid urbanization are one aspect of the … of environmental policies at the local level in China's urban areas and suggests ways to reduce or remove them. The …
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This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
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Concludes, through the lens of sustainability, that cities (and in particular, "Edge Cities" in America's suburban areas) have not adequately controlled stormwater runoff, and proposes solutions to improve the Clean Water Act program
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Containing the ill effects of urban sprawl has become a cause celebre for many citizens who are experiencing a decline in the quality of life in the country's cities and suburban areas. Armed with smart growth principles, the new urbanists and many environmentalists advocate the return to more...
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-- Urbanization and the Environment: An Asian Perspective. … rural interventions as they influence urbanization and its problems/solutions. The second focuses on urban governance …, infrastructure programs, service delivery reforms and their evaluation. The third and final section focuses on urbanization and the …
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The pace of urbanisation, the intensity of energy consumption, and the quality of environmental regulation level pose a severe threat to environmental sustainability in Africa. Hence, we examine the role of regulatory quality on environmental pollution through urbanisation and energy consumption...
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