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Sustainable Development: Concepts and Methods for Its Application in Urban and Environmental Planning

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Geocomputation, Sustainability and Environmental Planning

Part of the book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence ((SCI,volume 348))

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The idea of sustainable development may appear quite vague, fuzzy and evasive (Pearce et al. 1989). In fact, whereas sustainability is related to a status of maintenance and conservation of the existing conditions, both in space and time and is referred to the capacity to guarantee a support without causing decay, the concept of development implies, instead, an alteration and a transformation of actual status, then a condition of instability.

This semantic conflict induces to an idea of both improvement and preservation: in substance, the effective aim of a sustainable development is the possibility to guarantee a better life quality for an enduring period of time.

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    Beniamino Murgante

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Murgante, B., Borruso, G., Lapucci, A. (2011). Sustainable Development: Concepts and Methods for Its Application in Urban and Environmental Planning. In: Murgante, B., Borruso, G., Lapucci, A. (eds) Geocomputation, Sustainability and Environmental Planning. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 348. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19733-8_1

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