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Sustainable cities: problems of integrated interdisciplinary research
Shmelev, Stanislav E.; Shmeleva, Irina A. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 4-23
problematique of urban sustainability is studied in the historical and international context. Current research in the field is … an innovative methodology for the analysis of interdisciplinary linkages among various sustainability dimensions in the … in the field of sustainable urban development. The two cities are compared using a panel of sustainability indicators. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078468
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Sustainable cities: problems of integrated interdisciplinary research
Shmelev, Stanislav E.; Shmeleva, Irina A. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 4-23
problematique of urban sustainability is studied in the historical and international context. Current research in the field is … an innovative methodology for the analysis of interdisciplinary linkages among various sustainability dimensions in the … in the field of sustainable urban development. The two cities are compared using a panel of sustainability indicators. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563829
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Walking the green carpet to work
Zabala, Aiora - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 78-94
political agenda. However, sound theoretical background and methodologies to assess sustainability in the field of transport to … industrial estates are scarce. In order to gain insight that may increase the effectiveness of future policies for sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078466
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Techno-optimism: progress towards CO2 reduction targets in transport: a UK and London perspective
Banister, David; Hickman, Robin - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 24-47
Transport is making a very limited contribution to carbon emissions reduction targets in the UK, and this paper argues the case for a substantial shift in thinking away from the concentration on technological alternatives to a revised approach that combines technological efficiency with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078470
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Walking the green carpet to work
Zabala, Aiora - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 78-94
political agenda. However, sound theoretical background and methodologies to assess sustainability in the field of transport to … industrial estates are scarce. In order to gain insight that may increase the effectiveness of future policies for sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563806
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Techno-optimism: progress towards CO<SUB align=right>2</SUB> reduction targets in transport: a UK and London perspective
Banister, David; Hickman, Robin - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 12 (2009) 1, pp. 24-47
Transport is making a very limited contribution to carbon emissions reduction targets in the UK, and this paper argues the case for a substantial shift in thinking away from the concentration on technological alternatives to a revised approach that combines technological efficiency with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563869
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Environmental melodrama, coal, and the politics of sustainable energy in The Last Mountain
Schwarze, Steve; Peeples, Jennifer; Schneider, Jen; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 17 (2014) 2, pp. 108-122
sustainability narrative. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010777246
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Domestic energy sustainability of different urban residential patterns: a New Zealand approach
Ghosh, Sumita; Vale, Robert; Vale, Brenda - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 1, pp. 16-37
A quantitative study was undertaken to calculate the potential sustainability of five residential blocks in Auckland …, New Zealand (NZ) of differing physical densities. The main study considered five attributes of sustainability: domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005754397
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Domestic energy sustainability of different urban residential patterns: a New Zealand approach
Ghosh, Sumita; Vale, Robert; Vale, Brenda - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 1, pp. 16-37
A quantitative study was undertaken to calculate the potential sustainability of five residential blocks in Auckland …, New Zealand (NZ) of differing physical densities. The main study considered five attributes of sustainability: domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008563845
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The discursive politics of governing transitions towards sustainability: the UK Carbon Trust
Kern, Florian - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 15 (2012) 1/2, pp. 90-106
A growing literature on socio-technical transitions argues that structural change in societal subsystems is necessary to move towards more sustainable societies. Proponents of policy approaches such as 'transition management' have prescribed an important role to governments in such processes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010669490