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The new urban paradigm
Lanfranchi, Gabriel; Herrero, Ana Carolina; Palenzuela, … - 2018
This policy brief argues in favor of a new urban model that harnesses the power that cities have to curb global warming. Such a model tackles fundamental management challenges in the energy, building and transport sectors to promote the growth of diverse and compact cities. Such a model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011908104
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Modelling natural capital : a proposal for a mixed multi-criteria approach to assign management priorities to ecosystem services
Castro-Pardo, Mónica de; Fernández Martínez, Pascual; … - In: Contemporary economics 14 (2020) 1, pp. 22-37
oriented to lifecycle maintenance, water conditions and intellectual interaction with the environment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012176125
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Sustainable agriculture and the environment : perspectives on growth and constraints
Ruttan, Vernon W. (contributor) - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004131568
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Green cities : urban growth and the environment
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2006
urban environment: -- The role of the market -- Income growth and greener governance -- Population growth and the urban … environment -- Spatial growth: the environmental cost of sprawl in the United states -- Achieving urban and global sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339748
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Urbanization and environment in Nigeria : implications for sustainable development
Onokerhoraye, Andrew Godwin - 1995 - 1. publ
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000944771
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Greening Africa's cities : enhancing the relationship between urbanization, environmental assets, and ecosystem services : urbanization, the environment and green urban development...
White, Roland; Turpie, Jane; Letley, Gwyneth - Weltbankgruppe - 2017
Africa is urbanizing late but fast. This brings many benefits but, as this report shows: thus far, urbanization in … Africa, unique in a number of respects, is having deleterious and largely unchecked impacts on the natural environment; the … degradation of natural assets and ecosystems within African cities carries tangible economic, fiscal and social costs; there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011791493
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Urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services : challenges and opportunities : a global assessment : a part of the Cities and Biodiversity Outlook project
Elmqvist, Thomas (ed.); Fragkias, Michail (ed.);  … - 2013
(Gordon McGranahan, International Institute for Environment and Development). The challenges of urbanization are profound, but … Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services can help us to extricate ourselves, provided we act on the knowledge they provide … study to all who have a stake in creating ecologically sustainable urbanization for the benefit of humanity and the planet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956527
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Analysing regional sustainability through a systematic approach: The Lombardy case study
Caratti, Pietro; Ferraguto, Ludovico - 2008
The intrinsic complexity of the sustainability concept challenges research towards more sophisticated ways to model and assess the dimensions underlying it. However, currently adopted modelling techniques and indicators frameworks are not able to give an integrated assessment through the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270927
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Building sustainable historic centres: A comparative approach for innovative urban projects
Rabinovich, Adriana; Catenazzi, Andrea - 2010
Since the 1980s, the promotion of heritage values has gradually become a relevant issue for urban planning. Together with the emergence of new peripheries, inner-city areas and particularly old historic centres, affected by deterioration due to the recession of the last decades, have been the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280131
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Urban Green Growth in Dynamic Asia : A Conceptual Framework
Matsumoto, Tadashi - 2014
The development of Asian cities is characterised by rapid and continuous urbanisation on an unprecedented scale, with rapid economic growth led in most places by the manufacturing industry, and rapidly increasing motorisation. The result has been escalating greenhouse gas emissions, sprawling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281412