Modeling the Contribution of Existing and Potential Measures to Urban Sustainability Using the Urban Biophysical Sustainability Index (UBSI)

Ecological Economics

Volumn 139, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-8

  Stossel, Zeev ^a   Kissinger, Meidad ^a   Meir, Avinoam ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Environmental policy; Environmental thresholds; Multi scale analysis; Scenarios; Strong sustainability; Urban sustainability modeling

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INDEX METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION GROWTH; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; THRESHOLD;

ISRAEL; TEL AVIV; TEL AVIV-JAFFA;

EID: 85017542683     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.03.039     Document Type: Article

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