Understanding the links between urban regeneration and climate-friendly urban development: lessons from two case studies in Japan

Local Environment

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 868-890

  Balaban, Osman ^a,b   Puppim de Oliveira, Jose Antonio ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

adaptation; climate change; compact city; low carbon urbanism; mitigation; urban regeneration

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MITIGATION; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; URBAN RENEWAL;

JAPAN;

EID: 84905123942     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2013.798634     Document Type: Article

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