The environmental impacts of sprawl: Emergent themes from the past decade of planning research

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3302-3327

  Wilson, Bev ^a   Chakraborty, Arnab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental impact; Justice; Resilience; Sprawl; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE; LITERATURE REVIEW; PLANNING METHOD; RESEARCH METHOD; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84886266187     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su5083302     Document Type: Review

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