The concepts of sustainability and sustainable development have acquired great relevance
in scientific research about environmental issues, policies linked to environmental …

If life cycle oriented methods are to encourage sustainable development, they must account
for the role of ecosystem goods and services, since these form the basis of planetary …

With the expansion of economic activities in cities, the function of the urban system is
complex and the ecological environment is destructed gradually. Urban planning is one of …

In the industrialization that started in the 1830s in countries such as England and America,
transportation networks, geographical locations and spatial size were taken as the basis in …

Dispersed urbanization has expanded into rural land worldwide. The present work focused
on the Athens' metropolitan area, the capital of Greece, discussing the potential role of a …

We present and discuss a method that allows the disaggregation of national Ecological
Footprints by economic sector, detailed final demand category, sub-national area or socio …

I Introduction Recent developments, empirical and theoretical, call into question the
geographic cate-gories and concentrations ofrural geography. This review is written in a …

The present work explores the synergies between socio-metabolic energy use and
landscape patterns, starting from the hypothesis that there is a complex and changing …

A set of landscape metrics is used to study the long-term environmental transformation of a
typical coastal Mediterranean area from 1850 to 2005. Our figures show a dramatic …

Until recently, the sustainable development indicators published by Eurostat were divided
into 10 thematic areas. Currently apart of this division, the new indicators system divided into …