When you throw something away, said Annie Leonard, a ‘critic of consumerism’, it must go somewhere. That somewhere – overburdened dumpsites stinking and fuming on the outskirts of our cities – cannot hold anymore….. read here more
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By Paula Satizábal, University of Melbourne, and Simon P J Batterbury, Lancaster University. (c) Photo by Paula Satizábal, small-scale fishers on the Gulf of Tribugá. Empty-yet-full imaginaries Oceans are framed by policy makers and governments…
The urban sphere of influence can be defined as the geographical region which surrounds an urban system and maintains inflow-outflow relationship with the system . Every urban centre, irrespective of the size and the nature of function, has a region … Continue reading
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By Steve Cinderby, University of York, UK, and Sue Bagwell, London Metropolitan University, UK. Globally our societies are becoming increasingly urbanised with the United Nations (UN) reporting that already the majority of people live in…
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