Time-Geographical approaches to Emergence and Sustainable Societies (TiGrESS)

Time-Geographical approaches to Emergence and Sustainable Societies (TiGrESS)

Time-Geographical approaches to Emergence and Sustainable Societies (TiGrESS)

Government plans for the economic development of South East England include large scale commercial, housing and industrial development. Essentially shifting major growth to the north and east, exploiting the Thames gateway and developing east to west infrastructure. Water resources are already believed to be under pressure in this region from the impacts of climate change and competing demands ...

دانشگاه پایدار: پیش‌بایست‌های دست‌یابی به آموزش پایدار

The emergence of the concepts of sustainable development, then the “sustainability” and scope of academic literature and national and international documents in their conceptualization, and also in criticizing the growth-oriented (economic) development process that has dominated human societies for decades in the national and international realms, all show that the current retrogressive paradig...

Ecological approaches in planning for sustainable cities: A review of the literature

Rapid urbanization has brought environmentally, socially, and economically great challenges to cities and societies. To build a sustainable city, these challenges need to be faced efficiently and successfully. This paper focuses on the environmental issues and investigates the ecological approaches for planning sustainable cities through a comprehensive review of the relevant literature. The re...

Division of Labor and Structuration Theory: A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis of Marx’s and Durkheim’s Theories as the Early Approaches to Structuration Theory

To the extent that a society is to work, there exist a need for a cooperative process, including Weber’s and Merton’s note of common means and goals. But at the same time, there exist no societal process without involving conflict; (conflict in a dynamic and dialectical sense.) Dealing with this problematic situation the emergence of “division of labor”, as a compulsive social differentiation, ...