Thailand's urban planning was stuck in a growth paradigm that concentrated on land-use management to respond to the population and economic growth since 1975. However, most provincial cities have experienced a population decline. As a result, many of the provincial cities' comprehensive plans...

This paper argues that the technology life cycle literature is confused and incomplete. This literature is first reviewed with consideration of the related concepts of the life cycles for industries and products. By exploring the inter-relationships between these, an integrated view of the...

The environmental sustainability of economic growth has been subject to much debate for many decades. Recently, two alternatives to the growth paradigm have been put forward: namely, "a-growth" and "degrowth." The first proposes to ignore GDP information and focus instead on sound environmental,...