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An Examination of Sustainability and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Turkey Case

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This study focuses on international summits which have defined the framework of sustainability, and which have played an important role in the emergence and development of the concepts, sustainability and sustainable development in the recent past. The paper concentrates on the effects of international summits between the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (1972) and HABITAT III (2016) (Quito), which can be defined as milestones. Furthermore it explores the developments in Turkey with respect to the selected indicators for sustainable development goals and the process of achieving such goals that are identified in a global scale in the 2015 United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Summit.

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  1. Department of Real Estate Development and Management, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

    Arzuhan Burcu Gültekin, Ahmet Hilmi Erciyes & Demet Örgü

  2. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Bozok University, Yozgat, Turkey

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  2. University of South Wales, Pontypridd, United Kingdom

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  3. The British University in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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Gültekin, A.B., Dikmen, Ç.B., Erciyes, A.H., Örgü, D. (2018). An Examination of Sustainability and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Turkey Case. In: Fırat, S., Kinuthia, J., Abu-Tair, A. (eds) Proceedings of 3rd International Sustainable Buildings Symposium (ISBS 2017). ISBS 2017. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64349-6_20

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