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This work investigates the Greater Dublin Region of Ireland where urban planning and development was poorly controlled, leading to changes in its spatial configuration and particularly the preponderance of a sprawl pattern of development. The main goal is to share how science meets regions and cities needs by collaborating with stakeholders on the process of policy scenarios and selection of indicators to support them on future urban and regional planning and development. Learning from each other is an essential part to move towards future sustainability of the EU’s Cities and Regions, and worldwide.
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During the recession from 2019 to 2013 the Irish government decided to postpone many of the Transport 21 projects due to the economic situation in Ireland. However, in this study we run our scenarios with an assumption that with the economic recovery a number of the projects will be implemented by 2026.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Environmental Protection Agency under contract 2005-CD-U1-M1. All work undertaken with the MOLAND model for the GDR is under licence from RIKS b.v. and Joint Research Centre under licence no. JRC.BWL.30715.
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Petrov, L.O., Williams, B., Shahumyan, H. (2019). The Greater Dublin Region, Ireland: Experiences in Applying Urban Modelling in Regional Planning and Engaging Between Scientists and Stakeholders. In: Payne, D., et al. Social Simulation for a Digital Society. SSC 2017. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30298-6_12
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