Advancing urban sustainability theory and action: Challenges and opportunities

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 125, Issue , 2014, Pages 320-328

  Childers, Daniel L ^a   Pickett, Steward T A ^b   Grove, J Morgan ^c   Ogden, Laura ^d   Whitmer, Alison ^e  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c US Forest Service   (United States)

^d FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecology for cities; Inertia; Sanitary city; Sustainable city; Transitions; Urban sustainability

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS;

COLLABORATIVE PARTNERSHIPS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; INERTIA; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; SANITARY CITY; SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE; SUSTAINABLE CITIES; URBAN SUSTAINABILITY;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; SANITATION; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84898785858     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.022     Document Type: Article

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