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

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Regional Science in Developing Countries

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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.

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  1. Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York, USA

    Manas Chatterji (Professor of Management) (Professor of Management)

  2. Peking University, China

    Yang Kaizhong (Professor of Geography) (Professor of Geography)

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Nijkamp, P., Opschoor, H. (1997). Urban Environmental Sustainability: Critical Issues and Policy Measures in a Third-World Context. In: Chatterji, M., Kaizhong, Y. (eds) Regional Science in Developing Countries. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25459-0_5

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