The need for effective freight and human transportation systems has consistently increased
during the last decades, mainly due to factors such as globalization, e-commerce activities …

Power in communication takes two main forms. As 'external'power, it consists in the ability to
acknowledge or disregard a speaker or a discourse. As 'internal'power, it is the ability of an …

A conceptual paper published twenty years ago concluded that sustainable tourism
development is an unviable objective. Specifically, it argued that environmentally sound …

The city is the home of prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of
basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions …

Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making
science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral …

The 2030 Agenda and its SDGs call for cross-sectoral collaboration and societal
transformation. Translating these indivisible goals to the local level is an important …

In the last decade, many authors have observed shifts from government to governance in the
environmental policy domain. However, a clear conceptual framework to differentiate …

Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is
also a critical issue for the world's cities. Now home to over half the world's population, urban …

While sustainable cities have been promoted as a desirable goal within a variety of policy
contexts, critical questions concerning the extent to which cities and local governments can …

Measuring sustainability is not only a contentious issue, but one which has captured the
attention of both academics and politicians since the late 1980s. A plethora of methods and …