Abstract
This chapter places Bristol’s attempts to move towards a more sustainable future against the context of the emerging European interest in the urban environment and the global urban challenge to be faced over the next 20–30 years. A brief overview records the dimensions of the global urban challenge as discussed by the series of UN conferences that have taken place over the last 25 years of this century. The specific urban focus in Europe is then introduced and the European policy responses to urban and environmental problems elaborated with particular reference to the European Sustainable Cities Project, led by the Expert Group on the Urban Environment following the publication of the Green Paper on the Urban Environment in 1990 (CEC, 1990).
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Fudge, C. (1999). Changing Cities — Transforming Socio-Ecological Relations in Bristol and Brussels. In: Blanke, B., Smith, R. (eds) Cities in Transition. Anglo-German Foundation for The Study of Industrial Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333982273_15
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