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1. State of the Art on the Search for Sustainability and Quality of Life in Cities

Authors : Roberta Cocci Grifoni, Rosalba D’Onofrio, Massimo Sargolini

Published in: Quality of Life in Urban Landscapes

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The concept of sustainability appears simple but is difficult to define. It can be at once an idea, a lifestyle, a production mode, or a way of “consuming”. As John Huckle writes, “…Like liberty, justice and democracy, sustainability has no single and agreed meaning. It takes on different meaning within different political ideologies and programmes underpinned by different kind of knowledge, values and philosophy” (Huchle 1996).

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Footnotes
1
This expression was coined by Thomas S. Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) to describe a change in basic assumptions within a dominant scientific theory.
 
2
World Conservation Union, UN Environment Programme, and World Wide Fund for Nature, 1991.
 
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Metadata
Title
State of the Art on the Search for Sustainability and Quality of Life in Cities
Authors
Roberta Cocci Grifoni
Rosalba D’Onofrio
Massimo Sargolini
Copyright Year
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65581-9_1