Urban green rating systems: Insights for balancing sustainable principles and heritage conservation for neighbourhood and cities renovation planning

E Lucchi, A Buda - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper presents an overview of existing urban sustainability rating tools for their possible
application in historic urban environments, facing the debate between environmental …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of urban sustainability assessment literature

M Cohen - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
As the world rapidly urbanizes, there is much focus on achieving sustainability outcomes
within cities. Accomplishing this goal requires not only envisioning sustainable cities and …

[HTML][HTML] Nexus between nature-based solutions, ecosystem services and urban challenges

JB Almenar, T Elliot, B Rugani, B Philippe, TN Gutierrez… - Land use policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Nature-based Solutions (NBS) are increasingly promoted to support sustainable and
resilient urban planning. However, design and planning urban NBS targeted at the needs of …

Bridging 'stakeholder value creation'and 'urban sustainability': the need for better integrating the environmental dimension

D Beck, M Ferasso - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Stakeholder-orientation is critical to fostering sustainable urban development through
synergic collaborations among urban stakeholders. However, although Stakeholder Value …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing urban sustainability of slum settlements in Bangladesh: Evidence from Chittagong city

N Uddin - Journal of urban management, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper examines the sustainability of urban development through the livelihood
conditions of slum dwellers in Bangladesh. The empirical data were collected through …

Explaining objective forces, driving forces, and causal mechanisms affecting the formation and expansion of the peri-urban areas: A critical realism approach

H Dadashpoor, S Ahani - Land Use Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Accelerated urbanization in peri-urban areas of metropolises is one of the emerging issues
of the past decades which has numerous physical, social, economic, and environmental …

Emerging sustainability concerns and policy implications of urban household consumption: A systematic literature review

O Shittu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2015 Paris Agreement marked a significant shift in public and scholarly
discourse on climate change by laying more emphasis on stakeholder involvement and …

Environmental injustices on green and blue infrastructure: Urban nexus in a macrometropolitan territory

MH Amaral, LL Benites-Lazaro… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Green-blue infrastructure in urban regions guarantees the provision of resources such as
water, energy, and food, which are interdependent and fundamental in ensuring human …

[HTML][HTML] Performance of rice husk ash as supplementary cementitious material after production in the field and in the lab

M Thiedeitz, W Schmidt, M Härder, T Kränkel - Materials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Supplementary cementitious materials (SCM) can reduce the total amount of Portland
cement clinker in concrete production. Rice husk ashes (RHA) can be converted from an …

Barriers to green cities development in developing countries: evidence from Ghana

C Debrah, DG Owusu-Manu, E Kissi… - Smart and Sustainable …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Of late, cities across the globe are taking pragmatic steps towards addressing
environmental, social and economic problems in the debate on sustainable development …