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Sustainability Science: a New Paradigm for Planning?

August 31, 2012 /

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Planners often struggle to define, communicate, and integrate sustainability goals into their plans and everyday practices. Edward Jepson contemplates Chrisna du Plessis’s assertion that the emerging academic field of Sustainability Science — which offers a pathway for grounding planning practices in analytical, verifiable, and iterative processes — provides a new paradigm for the profession and a way to make our cities more resilient to change.

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