Prioritizing urban sustainability solutions: Coordinated approaches must incorporate scale-dependent built environment induced effects

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Georgescu, M ^a   Chow, W T L ^b   Wang, Z H ^a,c   Brazel, A ^a   Trapido Lurie, B ^a   Roth, M ^b   Benson Lira, V ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; climate; mitigation; sustainability; urban

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY;

ADAPTATION; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE; MITIGATION; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES; URBAN; URBAN SUSTAINABILITY;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ADAPTATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL CLIMATE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PRIORITIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAKEHOLDER; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN ECONOMY;

EID: 84937468037     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/061001     Document Type: Article

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