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Challenges in Sustainability Pub Date : 2016-07-18 DOI: 10.12924/CIS2016.04010028

M. Hisschemöller

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引用次数: 3

Identifying the “Usual Suspects”: Assessing Patterns of Representation in Local Environmental Initiatives 识别“通常的嫌疑人”:评估地方环境倡议的代表模式

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Challenges in Sustainability Pub Date : 2016-06-21 DOI: 10.12924/CIS2016.04020001

P. Fenton, Henner Busch

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引用次数: 14

Action Research: An Essential Approach for Constructing the Development of Sustainable Urban Agricultural Systems 行动研究:构建可持续城市农业系统发展的重要途径

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Challenges in Sustainability Pub Date : 2016-05-24 DOI: 10.12924/CIS2016.04010020

Antonia D. Bousbaine, C. Bryant

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引用次数: 4

Urban Agriculture, Commons and Urban Policies: Scaling up Local Innovation 都市农业、公地与都市政策:扩大地方创新

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Challenges in Sustainability Pub Date : 2016-05-17 DOI: 10.12924/CIS2016.04010010

F. Mancebo

引用次数: 10

Building Urban Agricultural Commons: A Utopia or a Reality? 建设城市农业公地:乌托邦还是现实?

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Challenges in Sustainability Pub Date : 2016-04-25 DOI: 10.12924/CIS2016.04010003

P. Donadieu

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引用次数: 6

Urban Agriculture: Fostering the Urban-Rural Continuum 都市农业:促进城乡统一体

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Challenges in Sustainability Pub Date : 2016-04-20 DOI: 10.12924/CIS2016.04010001

F. Mancebo, S. Salles

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引用次数: 4

A Review of "The Politics of Sustainability: Philosophical Perspectives" 《可持续性政治:哲学视角》述评

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Challenges in Sustainability Pub Date : 2015-12-04 DOI: 10.12924/CIS2015.03010018

JosÃ© Goldemberg

引用次数: 0

Time for Decarbonization of Conservation and Development Projects? The Political Ecology of Carbon Projects 保护和发展项目的脱碳时间到了?碳项目的政治生态

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Challenges in Sustainability Pub Date : 2015-12-03 DOI: 10.12924/CIS2015.03010016

P. Ibisch

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Sustainability of Fiscal Policy in Democracies and Autocracies 民主与专制国家财政政策的可持续性

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Challenges in Sustainability Pub Date : 2015-09-30 DOI: 10.12924/CIS2015.03010001

Stefan Wurster

引用次数: 0

Challenges in sustainability: another brick in the wall 可持续发展的挑战:墙上的另一块砖

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Challenges in Sustainability Pub Date : 2014-10-10 DOI: 10.12924/CIS2014.02010028

B. Ness, J. Monteiro

引用次数: 1