A feasibility evaluation tool for sustainable cities – A case study for Greece

Theodoridou, Ifigeneia; Papadopoulos, Agis M.; Hegger, Manfred

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.01.042

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“…These three terms are also often considered when evaluating sustainable development (Munier, 2011;Tanguay et al, 2010;Theodoridou et al, 2012). Tabuchi (2013) recognizes that safety, convenience and job opportunities are the main reasons for rural to urban migration.…”

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Urban population agglomeration in view of complex ecological niche: A case study on Chinese prefecture cities

Han

Wang

et al. 2014

Ecological Indicators

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Urban population agglomeration in view of complex ecological niche: A case study on Chinese prefecture cities

Han

Wang

et al. 2014

Ecological Indicators

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“…Addressing sustainability on a city level does not reduce the generic complexity nor the uncertainty that comes along with the multiple actors, interests, interactions and processes involved in it [6]. Hence, the quest for innovative practical, hands-on grips for urban "transition" practice [13] and for the development of the necessary facilitating skills and competences [14] that enable locally embedded processes towards the achievement of sustainability has been embarked on [15]. A specific element of the enabling local city scale is the ability for actually making (policy) decisions and community choices [16], e.g., in energy related building retrofit [17].…”

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Lost in Transition or Geared for the S-Curve? An Analysis of Flemish Transition Trajectories with a Focus on Energy Use and Buildings

Vandevyvere

Nevens

2015

Sustainability

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Abstract:In recent years, many cities have adopted action plans to become climate neutral in the coming decades. Hereby, a strong motivational factor has been the goal to realize a win-win situation in the long term: climate neutrality and sustainable functioning are not only beneficial for the environment, but are equally beneficial for society and for the economy if well-integrated trajectories are adopted. Nevertheless, as actors across the fields start to implement these plans, many practical obstacles have arisen. These barriers are typical of a systemic transition: dominant practices are characterized by path dependencies, vast institutional frameworks and vested interests that are hard to break through. At the same time, relevant initiatives typically show some elements of uncertainty and a long term return, factors that make it difficult to attract financial investments. The present article addresses the state of the art for current transition experiments in the region of Flanders, Belgium, focusing on actions related to energy and buildings in cities. A brief overview of the state of affairs in several cities and provinces is presented, and some important opportunities and bottlenecks are identified. The resultant findings are tested against the framework of transition theory and related literature on the subject. Subsequently, a set of possible strategies to overcome the above mentioned barriers is formulated. These strategies focus on effectively mobilizing actors and investments. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 2416

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“…The index system was established from three aspects that affect or are related to urban ecological security, i.e., the urban ecological pressure (the pressure from population growth and environmental resource assumption) the eco-environment state and the response (measures and policies that are adopted to solve ecoenvironmental issues) (Bai and Tang, 2010;Pei et al, 2010). With the help of expert consultation, frequency statistics and literatures investigation (Hua et al, 2011;Li et al, 2009;Theodoridou et al, 2012;Zhang et al, 2012), the evaluation index of the BTH region was established and is shown in Table 1. And the schematic of the cause-effect chain with indicators for the urban ecological security PSR framework was drawn in Fig.…”

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Urban ecological security assessment for cities in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei metropolitan region based on fuzzy and entropy methods

Han

Liu

Wang

2015

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a b s t r a c tBased on the pressure-state-response conceptual model, we constructed the urban ecological security evaluation index system for 13 cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan region from 2003 to 2014, where integrated development has occurred up to the national strategic level. The entropy-weight method was used to calculate the index weights to eliminate subjectivity. After the perfection and detailing of the increased half-ladder membership function and the confirmation of the membership standard of urban ecological security evaluation, the fuzzy synthetic evaluation method was used to calculate, analyze and evaluate the ranks of urban ecological security from 2003 to 2012. The overall regional ecological security of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei metropolitan region increased during those 10 years. However, as expected for the obvious increase in the ecological state security level, neither the ecological pressure security nor the response security level significantly changed. In addition, urban social and economic indicators contributed more to the ecological security assessment than did the natural resource indicators and environmental indicators.

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A feasibility evaluation tool for sustainable cities – A case study for Greece

Cited by 31 publications

References 68 publications

Urban population agglomeration in view of complex ecological niche: A case study on Chinese prefecture cities

Urban population agglomeration in view of complex ecological niche: A case study on Chinese prefecture cities

Lost in Transition or Geared for the S-Curve? An Analysis of Flemish Transition Trajectories with a Focus on Energy Use and Buildings

Urban ecological security assessment for cities in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei metropolitan region based on fuzzy and entropy methods

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