POLICY AVAILABLE AND SUSTAINABLE WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT

Urban Geography: Waterfront Development

Glossary brownfield A piece of previously used land that requires some remediation of contaminants, pollutants, debris or hazardous substances in order for it to be reused and redeveloped. containerization A shipping method which uses standardized containers to store and transport goods and materials. gentrification A complex process whereby a group of middle class people move into a previously...

Waterfront Areas as Hotspots of Sustainable and Creative Development of Cities

Sustainable urban development through complete street policy implementation

Nowadays, the expansion of the cities is an inevitable necessity; increasing the dependence of the citizens on motor vehicles and, consequently, making development of the transportation networks a necessity rather than an option. Thus, increasing car ownership and car use has created many problems for the cities, such as increasing greenhouse gas emissions, environmental pollution, casualties o...

Industrial Policy for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development

The point of departure of this paper is the hypothesis that we are in the midst of a change in the techno-economic paradigm. What we perceive as new challenges in a globalized world economy are in fact symptoms of the search for a new paradigm. There is some probability that a key feature of a new paradigm will be ecological sustainability. Therefore, a policy that tries to shape the structures...

the role of economic policy and environment in sustainable development

economic policies need to be analyzed within consistent and coherent framework. in the absence of an operational framework the policy analyst is confronted with an indeterminate model to work with. this paper intends to offer a specific framework for economic-environment integration to highlight the role of economic policy and environment in sustainable development for the purpose of empiri...