Objectives: To examine how policy tools can be used to improve the environmental performance of SMEs and to redirect entrepreneurial energies towards environmentally-sustainable goals. Prior Work: A review of relevant policy literature and data on environmental performance and impacts is used to establish the importance of SMEs and entrepreneurial actors in relation to environmental sustainabil...

The last two decades have witnessed a surge in interest the smart–sustainable city, but it remains unclear how smart cities can achieve multifaceted goals of sustainable development, such as ecological performance, human development and sustainability efficiency. This study performs fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) 35 Chinese large through configurational theorizing city nexus...

The world has been urbanizing for centuries (United Nations 2001; United Nations Centre for Human Settlements [1996] 2000). While some scholars note a decline in the significance of space and distance as the result of telecommunications advancements and globalization (Cairncross 2001), other thinkers point to the continuing, if not increasing, importance of proximity and multiple benefits of ur...

Information on sustainability can be used for future development planning. This study presents an approach for assessing urban sustainability. Delphi and fuzzy logic methods and the Kruskal–Wallis test were the discovery and verification techniques used. The city system comprised social, economic, and environmental subsystems. The seven orientors of existence, effectiveness, freedom of action, ...

Regional community portals (RCPs) have the potential to bridge the ‘digital divide’ between urban and non-urban Australia. The government has recognised this potential and developed various programs and initiatives, including Networking the Nation, to cultivate it. However, the success appears to be limited for far. This paper proposes the S model to analyse the current state of play in RCPs. T...

the objective of this study is to measure the city of tehran’s environmental quality in 2006 (the last census year). primarily, with a comparative analysis of a variety of urban sustainability indicator models, a collection of 54 indicators have been chosen and categorized as indicators of increase or decrease in urban environmental quality in the form of a simple mathematical model. based o...

The ecodesign of urban environments at different spatial scales6 is an emerging topic fostered by the research on ecodesign and urban sustainability. Urban areas and environments are expanding worldwide. Statistics of urban population share reach figures of 70% in Europe, America and Oceania and 50% globally1. This ever-increasing urban population is likely to grow even more2. With this unprece...

one of the most important subjects in 21 century in relation to sustainable urban development is urban form. urban form that is pattern of spatial distribution of human activities in a specific period can be divided into two kinds: compact city and urban sprawl. because there is a close relation between urban form and urban sustainability, urban planners have to know about urban pattern and for...