Operationalising urban sustainability: defining, measuring and modelling.

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Operationalising urban sustainability: defining, measuring and modelling.

Despite its ubiquity urban sustainability is a contested concept with no widely accepted definition of what it is, or what it should look like. This lack of consensus surrounding meaning presents barriers to coherent operationalisation to bring about positive change, leading to the dominance of unde...

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Main Author:	Purvis, Ben
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2020
Subjects:	Urban sustainability Entropy System dynamics Limits to growth Pluralism
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/63363/

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