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Urban Environmental Sustainability: Critical Issues and Policy Measures in a Third-World Context

In: Regional Science in Developing Countries

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  • Peter Nijkamp
  • Hans Opschoor

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Economic restructuring, sociopolitical transformation, technological innovation and global networking have all had a profound impact on the position of cities and regions in our world. Cities tend increasingly to become both centrifugal and centripetal nodes in a national — and also increasingly international — society linked by means of networks. This also holds for cities in developing countries. They face the urgent need to solve problems of poverty, housing and unemployment, and at the same time they are also facing the need to generate competitive advantages in order to be sustainable and to survive among fierce national or international competition (Porter (1990)). Against the background of competition and gains or losses of trade (of goods and services), the idea of sustainable development is increasingly coming to the fore.

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  • Peter Nijkamp & Hans Opschoor, 1997. "Urban Environmental Sustainability: Critical Issues and Policy Measures in a Third-World Context," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Manas Chatterji & Yang Kaizhong (ed.), Regional Science in Developing Countries, chapter 5, pages 52-73, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-25459-0_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25459-0_5
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