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Architecture and architects play a major role in developing sustainable cities and the built environment to achieve the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  This extensive collection of architectural projects across the world illustrates how architecture and architects can contribute to each of the SDGs.  The 8 ...

Dependency of the European Union on energy imports is 60%.  In 2021, Russia made up 45% of the EU's imported gas, costing €1 billion daily despite sanctions.  While energy markets will remain very tight, Europe must effectively diversify supplies from its current main supplier (Russia) and look for new solutions to mee ...

The Smart City Hospitality Framework can serve as the foundation for a destination-design-driven approach to urban tourism governance and dealing with overtourism.  It is intended to stimulate collaboration on solutions to overtourism and urban tourism development and facilitate discussing and analyzing the relationshi ...

We consume 70% more than what the earth can safely replenish and only 8.6% of what we use is returned to the economy.  Rather than rectifying this, global circularity decreased from 9.1% in 2018 to 8.6% in 2020.  Increasing levels of waste accompany the rapid acceleration of consumption, leaving a massive circularity g ...

The Limits to Growth (LtG) published in April 1972, called for managing the reduction of resources used in economic development.  It warned that overshoot will be caused by significant institutional delays in decision-making and showed how the equilibrium between remedial action and ecosystem improvement could be achie ...