TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring sustainable urban transformation concepts for economic development
AU - Latvia, School of Business and Finance
AU - Atstaja, Dzintra
AU - Koval, Viktor
AU - Uvarova, Inga
AU - Mavlutova, Inese
AU - Kuzmina, Jekaterina
N1 - Funding Information:
The paper was supported by the BA School of Business and Finance internal grant BA2020/1 project ?Modern teaching methods to promote the development of sustainable entrepreneurial thinking ? and the project of Latvian Council of Science No. lzp-2020/2-? ? ? ? ?The ImCpOacVtIDo-f19 on Sustainable Consumption Behaviours and Circular Economy ? ?
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Nowadays cities face numerous challenges amplified to build necessary urban municipal and community capacity to ensure sustainability transformation to respond to the local and global challenges of climate change, inequality, and access to resources. This research combines the study fields of sustainability, economic development, governance of sustainability transformation, providing the multidisciplinary approach as a systemic-oriented view encompassing the social, technological and ecological aspects of urban transformation. The purpose of the paper is to explore how the concept of urban transformation could be operationalized for research of economic development under the economic strain assuming the emergency of Covid-19 grand challenge. The research methods used are a systematic literature review and the content analysis. The paper provides a detailed characterization of the urban transformation exploring this concept from the structure and system perspectives for the economic exit from the crisis.
AB - Nowadays cities face numerous challenges amplified to build necessary urban municipal and community capacity to ensure sustainability transformation to respond to the local and global challenges of climate change, inequality, and access to resources. This research combines the study fields of sustainability, economic development, governance of sustainability transformation, providing the multidisciplinary approach as a systemic-oriented view encompassing the social, technological and ecological aspects of urban transformation. The purpose of the paper is to explore how the concept of urban transformation could be operationalized for research of economic development under the economic strain assuming the emergency of Covid-19 grand challenge. The research methods used are a systematic literature review and the content analysis. The paper provides a detailed characterization of the urban transformation exploring this concept from the structure and system perspectives for the economic exit from the crisis.
KW - Covid-19
KW - Critical literature review
KW - Economic development
KW - Sustainable urban transformation
KW - Urban
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107263578&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.25115/eea.v39i5.5209
DO - 10.25115/eea.v39i5.5209
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107263578
SN - 1133-3197
VL - 39
SP - 1
EP - 15
JO - Estudios de Economia Aplicada
JF - Estudios de Economia Aplicada
IS - 5
ER -
