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On sustainable development, a fundamental controversy is a value assigned to environmental goods and services. Economics approaches it from two perspectives: the traditional neoclassical approach (environmental economics) and another, more comprehensive one, where different sciences converge (ecological economics). This work offers a critical review of conventional economic theory associated with sustainable development, also highlights the need to assign values to environmental services for bet...

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As one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sustainable cities and communities has become a common pursuit in the contemporary urban era. Hence, a sustainable perspective is sensible to scrutinize tremendous urban transformation in rapidly growing global cities. This paper focuses on studentification-induced urban transformation and attempts to establish an evaluation framework revolving around sustainability through a systematic review of relevant literature on studentification. The ...

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A green city has ideal and modern urban development with extraordinary harmony of environment, ecology, economy, society, culture, and people. The coordination of human relations and green development has become a new development model for a modern society. Recently, the construction of a green city has aroused wide concern. Despite problems, the priority to coordinate the groups with different needs is needed to maintain the green development of cities. In this study, different levels of factor...

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With the acceleration of urbanization, excessive urbanization and cluster expansion threaten the traditional environment of historical and cultural districts. The preservation of historical and cultural districts has become an important issue for urban development. Through literature review and case analysis, the six success factors are summarized in this article for historical and cultural district preservation: historical and cultural heritage, public participation, government actions, communi...

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As an important part of the green space system in high-density cities, pocket parks provide the city with natural ecological functions, including microclimate regulation, stormwater management, and so on, and also play an important role in improving the city image, promoting neighborhood communication and other social benefits. However, at present, there has been little research on the accessibility of pocket parks. Based on the theory of space syntax, pocket parks in Xuzhou old city are selecte...

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Sustainable development is a critical theory and strategy to promote the development of the regional economy. The sustainable development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YEB) has essential significance for the development of China. In this paper, 11 provinces and cities in the YEB are taken as the research object, and the analytic hierarchy process is used to construct an evaluation index system for the sustainable development capacity of the YEB from the three aspects of the economy, societ...