Urban Environmental Sustainability: Critical Issues and Policy Measures in a Third-World Context

Peter Nijkamp and Hans Opschoor

Chapter 5 in Regional Science in Developing Countries, 1997, pp 52-73 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Economic restructuring, sociopolitical transformation, technological innovation and global networking have all had a profound impact on the position of cities and regions in our world. Cities tend increasingly to become both centrifugal and centripetal nodes in a national — and also increasingly international — society linked by means of networks. This also holds for cities in developing countries. They face the urgent need to solve problems of poverty, housing and unemployment, and at the same time they are also facing the need to generate competitive advantages in order to be sustainable and to survive among fierce national or international competition (Porter (1990)). Against the background of competition and gains or losses of trade (of goods and services), the idea of sustainable development is increasingly coming to the fore.

Keywords: Geographic Information System; Urban Sustainability; Modern City; Sustainable City; Weak Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25459-0_5

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