Cities as nuclei of sustainability?

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 425-440

  Rybski, Diego ^a   Reusser, Dominik E ^a   Winz, Anna Lena ^a   Fichtner, Christina ^a   Sterzel, Till ^a,b   Kropp, Jürgen P ^a,c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Climate Babel   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allometry; Cities; Climate change; Development process; Scaling

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 85028610710     PISSN: 23998083     EISSN: 23998091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265813516638340     Document Type: Article

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