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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"sustainable communities"”.
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Creating sustainable communities in 'NewcastleGateshead'
… policies of recent years – the plan to create sustainable communities via Housing Market Renewal Pathfinders (HMRP). Announced as a ‘step change’ in urban policy to overcome problems of low demand and abandonment experienced most acutely in nine former industrial towns and cities in the north …
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Our Uncertain Future: Can Good Planning Create Sustainable Communities
"This project examines how local urban planning practice has been influenced by the concept of sustainability -- currently defined as a balance among economic, environmental and social equity concerns in planning and decision-making -- by investigating how successful planners have been in …
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Livability and quality of life indexes in planning for sustainable communities
… Livability and Quality of Life Indicators in a sustainable planning process. Planning literature is rife with references to quality of life and livability, as is other literature dealing with the urban environment. There are numerous existing indexes purporting to measure livability or quality …
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Co-designing in love: towards the emergence and conservation of human sustainable communities
… of the biggest challenges we have is to generate sustainable communities. Based on this, the research particularly deals with the following two questions: What is ecological design? And, how does Ecological Design both emerge from, and contribute to, the constitution and conservation of human …
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An initial evaluation of market-based land reform in Brazil: Can it create sustainable communities?
… in a socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable manner? In order to answer that question, case study research was carried out in seven Cedula da Terra land reform settlements in northern Bahia. Sustainability was defined as land reform settlements being socially, economically, and …
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A human-centric artificial intelligence approach towards equality, well-being, and responsibility in sustainable communities
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Delivering zero carbon homes and sustainable communities: the potential of group self-build housing in England
… 2016. Alongside this, broader priorities for sustainable development have been established in the UK, with a focus on the creation of sustainable communities. These are communities which support the diverse needs of residents and provide a good quality of life whilst protecting the natural …
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Institutionalising Public Deliberation in Public Policy Agenda Setting: The Case of the Sustainable Communities Act (2007)
… central government policy agendas in the UK; the Sustainable Communities Act (SCA) (2007).The SCA was selected for its analytically relevant features. It differs from other PDPs for a combination of three reasons: (a) it was specifically designed to allow citizens to identify policy problems, …
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Blockchain based Framework for Secure and Decentralized Energy Trading - Transforming Local Energy Markets for Sustainable Communities
… a sense of trust and ownership into the local communities and thereby would have a huge socio-economic impact.</p>
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What are the Factors that Support Sustainable Communities? A Case Study of an Inner-City Flats Complex.
… to finding out what are the factors that support sustainable communities. To find out to what extent do people in a social housing complex have a sense of agency and identify positively with the complex. These flats have just been rejuvenated and appear to be very stable and settled. However as …
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Ecovillages as models for sustainable urban neighborhoods : design guidelines and methods for understanding, analyzing and designing sustainable communities
Ecovillages, which are grassroots intentional communities focused on the shared values of environmental sustainability and community-building, offer an alternative to traditional development primarily focused on developer profit, which creates incentives to build cheaply with little consideration …
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The role of social workers in promoting environmental justice for sustainable communities from non-government organisations' perspective in Tshwane
In 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by state nations across the globe to eradicate poverty in all its forms, combat inequality, preserve the planet, create sustainable economic growth and foster social inclusion (United Nations [UN], 2015:5). Social work is committed to …
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The American Community College's Obligation to Democracy
… citizens, support justice and create more sustainable communities. My call for reform involves a multicultural integration of philosophy into terminal/vocational programs as well as evolving the traditional liberal arts course to exist in a multicultural setting. Special attention is …
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Environmental justice
In 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by nations across the globe to eradicate poverty in all its forms, combat inequality, preserve the planet, create sustainable economic growth and foster social inclusion (United Nations [UN], 2015:5). Social workers are compelled to …
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THE VALUE OF DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE URBAN COMMUNITIES IN THE KLANG VALLEY, MALAYSIA
Urban communities in Malaysia are being developed at a great intensity, due to the nation's drive towards industrialisation. Malaysia's fastest growing urban population is concentrated in the Klang Valley, where the population growth rate of 6.5 percent per annum is two and a half times the …
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Protocols, awareness, and preparedness of Dominica during Hurricane Maria: small island developing states' challenges to resiliency and adaptation to climate change
… have to address these challenges to emerge as sustainable communities.</p>
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Shaping the Future Amid Decline: Integrative Strategies for Aging Koreans and Migrant Workers in South Korea’s Shrinking Regions
… urban planning and policy can foster resilient communities amidst significant societal changes. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, which includes quantitative data alongside interviews and surveys with 81 stakeholders—from local officials to migrants and elderly residents—the research uncovers …
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Creating Community Among Older Adults in Southwest Virginia Through Social Participation
… to aging, we relate earlier work in age-friendly communities, aging in place and social isolation to landscape design. Identifying the critical principles of social participation and how these needs can be met through landscape intervention, we formulate a set of criteria, through which the …
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Development of a Resilience Assessment Methodology for Networked Infrastructure Systems using Stochastic Simulation, with application to Water Distribution Systems
… component towards achieving resilient and sustainable communities. Resilience concepts allow improved decision making in relation with risk assessment and management in water utilities. However, in order to operationalize infrastructure resilience concepts, it is fundamental to develop …
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World as Other, World As Self: Beyond Dualism in Environmental Narratives
… their ramifications for the work of building sustainable communities. I also examine an example of an alternative to these frameworks. I show that story-making in and with place enables a more holistic, more beneficial perspective on humans' relationships with the environment.</p>
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