IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/sustdv/v22y2014i6p391-403.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Sustainable Development Pathways: Determining Socially Constructed Visions for Cities

Author

Listed:
  • Nigel Martin
  • John Rice

Abstract

ABSTRACT The Sustainable Development (SD) of capital and regional cities is one of the most pressing challenges facing Australia. In this study, we analysed the collective views of 226 individuals and public and private organizations to determine SD pathways for cities. Our analysis of 1712 stakeholder statements showed that deficiencies in infrastructure investment, climate change resistant and environmentally harmonized developments, integrated transport networks, land use patterns and SD governance present ongoing challenges and opportunities for governments and communities. Critically, our analysis suggests that an estimated A$400–755 billion infrastructure underinvestment over past economic cycles, tight financial conditions and noted shortcomings in multi‐level SD governance will likely see pathway realizations delayed by several years into the future. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

Suggested Citation

  • Nigel Martin & John Rice, 2014. "Sustainable Development Pathways: Determining Socially Constructed Visions for Cities," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 22(6), pages 391-403, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:sustdv:v:22:y:2014:i:6:p:391-403
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mentis, Alan & Moonsammy, Stephan, 2022. "A critical assessment of Guyana's sustainability pathway: Perspectives from a developing extractive economy," Resources Policy, Elsevier, vol. 76(C).
    2. Guangdong Wu , & Kaifeng Duan & Jian Zuo & Xianbo Zhao & Daizhong Tang, 2017. "Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Public Rental Housing Community Based on a Hybrid Method of AHP-Entropy Weight and Cloud Model," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-25, April.
    3. Castán Broto, Vanesa, 2017. "Urban Governance and the Politics of Climate change," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 93(C), pages 1-15.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:sustdv:v:22:y:2014:i:6:p:391-403. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1099-1719 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.