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From Sustainable to Resilient Cities : Global Concerns and Urban Efforts /
The United Nations Brundtland Report defines sustainable development as one 'that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Embedded in this concept of sustainable development are the needs of the world's poor as we...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bingley, UK :
Emerald Group Publishing Limited,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Research in urban sociology ;
volume 14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sustainable cities in flux : continuity, comparisons, and conceptions / Yifei Li
- Coping with natural disasters and urban risk : an approach to urban sustainability from socio-environmental fragmentation and urban vulnerability assessment / Felipe Link [and others]
- Towards sustainable urban and regional planning : experiences from the Netherlands / Bart Wissink
- Residential landscapes, environmental sustainability and climate change / Steven B. Scyphers, Susannah B. Lerman
- Urban crisis within environmental and industrial policies in Italy : the case of the steel industry in Taranto / Mara Maretti
- Sustainable cities in post-Soviet Central Asia : the case of Bishkek / Daniel M. Cartledge
- Sustainability challenges and the spatial manifestation of poverty in megacities of the global south : focus on Dhaka, Bangladesh / Saleh Ahmed, Khan Rubayet Rahaman
- Smart growth machines : the ecological modernization of urban political economy / Erik Solevad Nielsen
- Creating new urban spaces of sustainability and governmentality : an assessment of the development of a food and urban agriculture strategy for Edmonton, Canada / Lorelei L. Hanson, Deborah Schrader
- Línea Verde, an axis road in Aguascalientes, Mexico / Edgar Ramírez de la Cruz, Edna Liliana Gómez Fernández
- Barriers to sustainability : gendered divisions of labor in Cuban urban agriculture / Christina Ergas
- Do you know what it means to rebuild New Orleans? Cultural sustainability after disaster / William G. Holt
- "The world is my backyard" : romanticization, Thoreauvian rhetoric, and constructive confrontation in the tiny house movement / April Anson
- Becoming an European green capital : a way towards sustainability? / Ilaria Beretta
- From sustainability to resilience : why locality matters / Lily M. Hoffman.