Urban tourism has remained a consistent theme in the expansion of tourism research since
the 1980s and several seminal papers (eg Ashworth, 1989, 2003) have reviewed the state of …

Cities are key for sustainability and the radical systemic changes required to enable
equitable human development within planetary boundaries. Their particular role in this …

Land is the most important wealth of the poor and has the triple attributes of resource, asset
and capital. However, the long-term neglect of the asset and capital attributes of land in rural …

This paper organizes and synthesizes different extant research streams through a
systematic literature review to identify connections and major assumptions on the influence …

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

This paper analyses the impact of urbanization and trade openness on emissions and
energy intensity in twenty-two increasingly urbanized emerging economies. We employ …

Against a backdrop of concerns about climate change, peak oil, and energy security issues,
reducing energy intensity is often advocated as a way to at least partially mitigate these …

Sustainable development is a widely used term, which has been increasingly influential on
UK planning, housing and urban policy in recent years. Debates about sustainability no …

In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to
speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. He argues for a re-visioning-a seeing …

Urbanization induces spatial and environmental changes. Monitoring and understanding the
nature of these changes is crucial to achieving sustainable urban development imperatives …