Tag: environment
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The Urban Growth Machine and Potential Difficulties
Introduction Before discussing the ‘Growth Machine’ (Molotch, 1979), an emphasis on the primary growth discussed will be given, in the form of a definition and a brief exploration of its example, that being resilience. The modern city is, like everything else under the atmosphere, subject to the rapid climate change that is dawning upon the…
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Sustainability
Introduction With the emergence of the industrial revolution humanity has, in turn, until more recent times disassociated itself with its naturalistic origins, and so had the field of sociology. The prominence of sociological concern in environmental and sustainability issues began to see rapid expansion during the 1970’s. Before that, the social science theories on human…
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