Integrating urban ecosystem sustainability assessment into policy-making: insights from the Gold Coast City

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1982-2006

  Dizdaroglu, Didem ^a   Yigitcanlar, Tan ^b  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

composite index; Gold Coast City; parcel scale spatial analysis; sustainability assessment; urban ecosystem

Indexed keywords

POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; RUNOFF; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

AUSTRALIA; GOLD COAST; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84961208731     PISSN: 09640568     EISSN: 13600559     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2015.1103211     Document Type: Article

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