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Urban environmental quality and public policies for sustainable development as support for planning and development

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This editorial features articles from the third issue of the ninth volume of the Brazilian Journal of Planning and Development – Revista Brasileira de Planejamento e Desenvolvimento (RBPD). This issue has contributed to the planning and development, as in previous and usual numbers of this journal, by teachers from Brazil.

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