Challenges in assessing urban sustainability

Corredor-Ochoa, Álvaro; Rozado, Carmen Antuña; Fariña-Tojo, José; Rajaniemi, Juho

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-820730-7.00019-7

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“…Research in the 6th and 7th Framework Programs has developed urban sustainability indicators, which are considered the most effective method for assessing urban sustainability and serve as a tool for setting several sustainability targets. However, in 2020, we do not yet have a set of urban planning indicators or assessment, and the topic is not included in EU policy [62]. The importance of sustainable urban indicators and urban planning indicators can be recognised in the definition of urban sustainability of the authors Verma and Raghubanshi [63], who pointed out that urban sustainability includes different topics such as biodiversity, energy, material balance, air pollution, heat island, noise pollution and others.…”

Section: Emergence Of the Urban Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Car Sharing on Urban Sustainability

2021

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The article gives us an insight into the key issues of car sharing and its impact on urban sustainability. A selection of 314 articles published in peer-reviewed journals from the Scopus database were analysed using Leximancer 5.0 for Automated Content analysis. A total of seven themes were identified explaining the researched topic of the car sharing situation in Europe, which are sharing, economy, model, systems, electrical car sharing, policy and travel. There are two ways of sharing owned cars in Europe; access to cars from the fleet of private organisations and P2P car sharing. Sustainable environmental solutions in the context of the electrification of cars are used. Car sharing usually takes place online and can be free or for a fee as defined by The European Economic and Social Committee. The article provides an overview of understanding the concept of urban car sharing in Europe.

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Section: Emergence Of the Urban Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of Car Sharing on Urban Sustainability

2021

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“…We thrive in urban spaces that foster social connections. Such urbanization change presents a challenge to planners and developers, who see rural suburbs as an opportunity to look at them as urban sprawl indicators [62]. Despite what some people think, urban systems can be more environmentally sustainable than rural or suburban living, where people may be further from each other, from essential services and the workplace.…”

Section: Urban Sustainability and Car-sharingmentioning

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Impact of the Car-Sharing on Urban Sustainability

Roblek¹,

Meško²,

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2020

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(1) Background: The article gives us an insight into the key issues of the car-sharing and its impact on urban sustainability. (2) Methods: A selection of 314 articles published in peer-reviewed journals from the Scopus database were analysed using Leximancer 5.0 for Automated Content analysis. (3) Results: Seven themes were identified explaining the researched topic of the car-sharing situation in Europe, which are Sharing, Economy, Model, Systems, Electrical car-sharing, Policy and Travel. There are two ways of sharing owned cars in Europe, access to cars from the fleet of private organizations and P2P car-sharing. Sustainable environmental solutions in the context of the electrification of cars are used. Car-sharing usually takes place online and can be free or for a free as defined by The European Economic and Social Committee. (4) Conclusions: The article provides an overview of understanding the concept of urban car-sharing in Europe.

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“…Cities dominate consumption, production, and the generation of waste (Campos et al, 2009) which has increased the interest of researchers and policymakers in sustainable urban development (Goodwin et al, 2021). Sustainable urban systems are an emerging concept (Batty, 2018) which has become a new theme in comparison to ecosystem sustainability (Corredor‐Ochoa et al, 2020). Looking more broadly, rapid urbanization has become an important component for sustainable development (Haughton, 1997; Haughton & Hunter, 2004) so that the present generation does not compromise the needs of future generations (Hernández‐Moreno & De Hoyos‐Martinez, 2010; Michael et al, 2014) by emphasizing the long term co‐evolution, interactions, and integration of urban life and urban structures (Adinyira et al, 2007).…”

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Valuation of socio‐economic indicators for progressing urban sustainability under distinctive rubrics

Ghalib

Mirza

Raza

et al. 2023

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The key objective of the study is to collect the factors which play an important role in the city's sustainability and implementation advantages for the development of cities in future. This article develops an urban sustainability assessment framework by giving GIS‐based decision support tools to guide cities toward sustainability. Multicriteria analysis was used as the decision support system and provides an analytical framework for assessing differences in the level of criteria and ranking decision options. It has the capability for assessment of urban sustainability because it brings sustainability criteria from three pillars of sustainability, environmental, social, and economic, which provide an integrated approach for assessment of urban sustainability. The GIS‐based multicriteria analysis serves as a sustainability support system that maps urban sustainability and the underlying environmental, social, and economic conditions. The results from the study show that the four cities ‐ Faisalabad, Lahore, Gujranwala, and Multan ‐ have better economic conditions while only Lahore and Faisalabad showed social progress and the remaining cities showed less suitability. For the environmental index, none of the cities attained high suitability. Lahore, Faisalabad, and Rawalpindi showed better conditions than Gujranwala and Multan. It is demonstrated that Punjab cities have made progress in economic condition and improvement in social condition but have poor environmental condition. In the study, the environmental dimension has indicators which have more impact on the urban sustainability. Environmental degradation is observed in all selected regions and not a single region showed suitability toward its environmental condition and due to this none of the cities gained suitable scores for urban sustainability. Consequently, urban sustainability is a multidimensional and dynamic process that needs regular evaluation and monitoring. Thus, this article contends that the tools help to highlight and emphasize those areas that need guidance in achieving urban sustainability.

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Challenges in assessing urban sustainability

Cited by 8 publications

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Impact of Car Sharing on Urban Sustainability

Impact of Car Sharing on Urban Sustainability

Impact of the Car-Sharing on Urban Sustainability

Valuation of socio‐economic indicators for progressing urban sustainability under distinctive rubrics

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