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Prof. Peter Rees' insights shared in article 'Undemocratic, anachronistic, fantastic. How the City of London survives' featured in Financial Times
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Discover Prof. Peter Rees' insights on the resilience of the City of London in the article 'Undemocratic, anachronistic, fantastic. How the City of London survives' featured in Financial Times.
Article published on estate regeneration schemes
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Dr Pablo Sendra has co-authored the new article ‘Identifying the criteria for community-centred Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of estate regeneration schemes’.
About: Identifying the overall environmental, and socioeconomic impacts of different estate regeneration scenarios can contribute to the overall sustainability of such schemes. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) is an appropriate tool for assessing holistic sustainability. To achieve resilient societies, the interests of communities should be considered in decision making. This paper proposes a method for incorporating community needs in identifying sustainability metrics for the sustainability assessment of estate regeneration schemes.