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New governance principles for sustainable urban transport

Camagni, Roberto; Capello, Roberta; Nijkamp, Peter - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1996

The paper positions the communications and transport in the centre of a rejuvenation policy for a sustainable urban habitat, taking for granted the success of urban govemance will depend on the professionality of local/regional policy-making govemed by sound principles from business practice in...

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Methodology and application of sustainable environment concepts for the built environment

Nijkamp, Peter; Artuso, Luisa - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1995

The paper takes for granted that urban areas - and hence the built environment - may play a catalytic role for effective environmental policy. This position is based on the fact that most residential, production and transportation activities in the developed world take place in urban areas. A...

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Transport and Sustainable Regional Development

Nijkamp, Peter - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1995

Transport plays a pivotal role in the dynamics of our society, not only in economic terms but also in a spatial setting. New driving forces such as technological progress, privatisation and deregulation exert a structuring impact on transport systems and on their related consequences induding...

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Sustainable cities: challenges of an integrated planning approach

Geenhuizen, Marine van; Nijkamp, Peter - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 1995

This paper will identify specific planning conditions that arise when planning aims at sustainable development. First, attention will be paid to socio-ethical attitudes toward sustainability issues and to the reasons why much of the sustainability debate deserves an urban focus. Then, specific...

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How Europe can deliver : optimising the division of competences among the EU and its member states

Weiss, Stefani; Heinemann, Friedrich; Berger, Melissa; … - Bertelsmann Stiftung; Zentrum für Europäische … - 2017

This study aims to give guidance for a better-performing EU through an improved allocation of competences between the … new national competence (if the policy is currently assigned to the EU). The comprehensive, quantification … support at the national level. Conversely, a shift of competences to the EU level would be advantageous when it comes to …

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