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Can compact rail transit corridors transform the automobile city? Planning for more sustainable travel in Los Angeles

Houston, Douglas; Boarnet, Marlon G; Ferguson, Gavin; … - In: Urban Studies 52 (2015) 5, pp. 938-959

Directing growth towards compact rail corridors has become a key strategy for redirecting auto-oriented regions towards denser, mixed-use communities that support sustainable travel. Few have examined how travel of near-rail residents varies within corridors or whether corridor land...

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How do we keep proper level of content diversity: The influence of the gigantic platform on content diversity

Lee, Changjun; Hwang, Junseok - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014

This paper aims to study the origin of the role of diversity in the new ICT ecosystem, and show how the gigantic platform influences on the level of diversity of content. Using genetic algorithm, it makes possible to reflect the new ICT ecosystem and experiment how the system is changing content...

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Attaining Self-reliance and Sustainability of Local Level Development through Citizen Participation. Experience from Bangladesh

Sarker, Mokhammed - In: Public administration issues (2012) 1, pp. 106-126

local level development and it explores the potentiality of attaining self-reliance and sustainability of local level … sustainability of the initiatives? In fact, six reasons were identifi ed: coverage, dignity, efficiency, effectiveness, self …-reliance and sustainability behind opting for citizen inclusion in local level development. The study found that PRDP nearly failed …

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The 2015 Power Trading Agent Competition

Ketter, Ketter, W.; Collins, Collins, J.; Reddy, Reddy, P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2015

This is the specification for the Power Trading Agent Competition for 2015 (Power TAC 2015). Power TAC is a competitive simulation that models a “liberalized” retail electrical energy market, where competing business entities or “brokers” offer energy services to customers through tariff...

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KÖRNYEZETI ÃLLAPOT, MEZÅGAZDASÃG, FENNTARTHATÓ FEJLÅDÉS

Marselek, Sandor - In: GAZDÁLKODÁS: Scientific Journal on Agricultural Economics 50 (2006) 15

Hazánk természeti környezetének állapota, nemzetközi összehasonlításban kedvező és az elmúlt években – állami erőfeszítések nyomán – érezhetően tovább javult. Földünk környezeti állapota viszont folyamatosan romlik és egyre inkább fenyegetnek a...

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A magyarországi természeti erőforrások állapota és fenntartható hasznosításukat befolyásoló tényezők

Palvolgyi, Tamas; Csete, Maria - In: GAZDÁLKODÁS: Scientific Journal on Agricultural Economics 56 (2012) 1

in policy decisions for long-term concepts. In other words, sustainability criteria for natural resources should be … incorporated into policies, and we also propose conducting a regional sustainability assessment for projects and investments that … – also applicable to ecosystem services – for the sustainability assessment presented in this study, e.g. for specific …

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Fenntarthatósági irányzatok összehasonlítása

Meszaros, Sandor; Hajdu, Istvanne - In: GAZDÁLKODÁS: Scientific Journal on Agricultural Economics 56 (2012) 3

€¦â€. -------------------------------------------------- While studying different versions of sustainability described in the literature we have noticed the absence or neglect of … some factors. Based on these remarks we have drawn some conclusions. Neither version of sustainability deals in a detailed … population growth can be an omission from earlier papers discussing sustainability problems. Without proper measures it can even …

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EVALUATING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF IMPOUNDED RIVERS: AN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES APPROACH

HEARNSHAW, EDWARD; TOMPKINS, JEAN-MARIE; CULLEN, ROSS - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 16 (2014) 04, pp. 1450035-1

systematically evaluated for their sustainability. In this paper the ecosystem services approach is applied for the purposes of … evaluating the sustainability of the Opihi River located in South Canterbury. Indicators are used to represent the set of … ecosystem services provided by the river. Both the criteria of weak and strong sustainability are evaluated in a novel way. Weak …

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GREENWASHING: A PROPOSAL TO RESTRICT ITS SPREAD

MARKHAM, DAVID; KHARE, ANSHUMAN; BECKMAN, TERRY - In: Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and … 16 (2014) 04, pp. 1450030-1

Recent years have seen a rapid rise in the number of firms publicly touting the environmental merits of their products or their operational practices. This is driven by the changing societal concern and public discourse around environmental issues. What was once an infrequent conversation has...

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INFORMATION SOCIETY - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PREMISE IN A COMPETITIVE ECONOMY

Bîta, Ioana Maria Ghidiu; Danescu, Tatiana - In: STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS PETRU MAIOR SERIES OECONOMICA 1/2010 (2010) December, pp. 21-34

economic prosperity and sustainability. Dynamism and complexity of the new type of society, which causes a continuous increase …

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