Environment and sustainable development indicators in Lebanon: A practical municipal level approach

Nader, Manal; Salloum, Bachir Abi; Karam, Nadim E.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2007.09.001

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“…This project investigates about 44 municipalities representing three different regions in Lebanon qualified for inclusion in the project with 17 choosing to participate in MED-ERMIS-Lebanon [5]. A total of 110 indicators were generated and grouped into four major categories adopted by the national indicator system: (1) population and socio-economic; (2) economic activities; (3) environment; and (4) sustainable development activities and policies.…”

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“…Mediterranean Environmental Reporting, Monitoring and Information System framework represents a pilot regional project involving Mediterranean countries according to a well-defined selection process [5]. This project investigates about 44 municipalities representing three different regions in Lebanon qualified for inclusion in the project with 17 choosing to participate in MED-ERMIS-Lebanon [5].…”

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“…Zhang et al (2003) did many research works about assessment on eco-city and put forward a set of indicator system. The workshops of the Lebanese Environment and Development Observatory (LEDO) at the Ministry of Environment (MoE) concluded with 110 indicators related to demography, standard of living and consumption, production patterns, agriculture, industry, energy, services, transport, air, water, land and soil, biodiversity, activities actors, policies and strategies (Nader et al, 2008). An indicator is an empirical and indirect interpretation of reality, and being used more and more frequently in the assessment of urban ecosystem, sustainability, and management of cities, land use, and the environment (OECD, 1997;Merkle and Kaupenjohann, 2000).…”

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Measurement indicators and an evaluation approach for assessing urban sustainable development: A case study for China's Jining City

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a b s t r a c tCities are complex ecosystems affected by social, economic, environmental, and cultural factors. The problem of attaining urban sustainable development is thus an important challenge. The development of evaluation indicators and a method for assessing the status of urban sustainable development will be required to support urban ecological planning, construction, and management. By using Jining City in China's Shandong Province as a case study, the authors developed a system of 52 indicators of urban sustainable development that address economic growth and efficiency, ecological and infrastructural construction, environmental protection, social and welfare progress. The authors developed a Full Permutation Polygon Synthetic Indicator method to evaluate the capacity for urban sustainable development at different times during the next two decades. The results of our research indicate that the value of a synthetic indicator for sustainable development of Jining City was 0.24 in 2004, which indicates a low level of sustainable development. According to the ecological planning of Jining City (2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018)(2019)(2020), the indicator will improve to 0.45 in 2007 and 0.62 in 2010, indicating significant improvements in sustainable development, and will reach 0.90 in 2020, indicating excellent potential for sustainable development. The Full Permutation Polygon Synthetic Indicator method provides a comprehensive, intuitive approach that reflects the system integration principle that the whole can be more than the sum of its parts. The approach thus provides a promising basis for decision-making to support urban sustainable development and monitoring of the effectiveness of these decisions.

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“…The interviewees stressed that plans are not currently monitored either in SEQ or in Lombardia because of a lack of indicators and resources to use for this purpose, a problem affecting several countries (Eckerberg & Mineur 2003;Nader et al 2008). A key to better monitor planning schemes is to think in a holistic way about how sustainability is conceived and monitored, which in Lombardia would help driving SEA away from an Italian tendency to rely on recommendations or guidelines, towards clear binding regulations (Bonifazi et al 2011).…”

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“…To reach such a goal, constraints to the development and monitoring of sustainability indicator should be addressed to understand what features suit each context for indicators implementation (Eckerberg & Mineur 2003;Nader et al 2008). Adapting the framework initially conceived by Nijkamp and Pepping (1998) to evaluate the initiatives of energy policies in several cities, Krank et al.…”

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A limits-oriented approach to sustainable planning assessments: a comparative analysis of South East Queensland (Australia) and Lombardia (Italy)

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Sustainable development is one of the key issues facing human survival on this planet. The urban planning discipline is actively involved in fostering more feasible ways to structure human activities and their relationship with the global ecosystem's finite resources. Since sustainability has become a major issue for human kind, sustainability assessments have proliferated in different ways to integrate socio-economic prosperity and provide environmental safeguards. In theory, these assessments can contribute towards addressing the increasing threats posed by climate change and by the depletion of natural resources, by building consensus around shared strategies involving a wide range of stakeholders to address national and international sustainable development goals. In practice however, sustainability assessments are undermined by problems associated with first the policy-making processes (for example, stakeholders' involvement) and second the measurement of the impacts of policies, plans and programs (such as the definition and computation of sustainability indicators). These issues weaken community trust in sustainability assessments and reduce their efficacy. Critical research is required to explore viable solutions.The main goal of this thesis is to address the shortcomings of current procedures for sustainability assessment. A comparative case study explores differences and similarities between an Australian region (South East Queensland) and an Italian region (Lombardia), which are representative of different institutional and planning backgrounds. Methodologically, this thesis develops and applies a framework to understand how limitations within political and societal processes prevent the achievement of environmentally sustainable planning. This framework combines a 'limits-oriented approach to evolutionary ecology' (Sih & Gleeson 1995) transposed to governance and policy-making processes, and the need to pursue a sustainable use of finite natural resources as suggested by positions addressing the 'limits to growth' by Meadows et al. (1972).Overall, this thesis develops an approach to diagnose current obstacles that need to be overcome and the pathway for achieving institutionalised limits-oriented approaches for improving procedures of sustainability assessment. This 'limits-oriented' framework outlines the benefits that South East Queensland and Lombardia can achieve by optimising current practices for sustainable planning within their regional contexts. This approach explores the limiting traits that undermine the performance of sustainability assessments, and proposes ways to bridge the gaps that separate their theoretical conceptualisation from their practical implementation.The framework developed and tested through this thesis offers an analytical lens to examine how the assessment of sustainable planning is currently featured in different institutional contexts. Its experimental implementation in countries with different planning traditions provides an insight on iii how to overcome iss...

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Environment and sustainable development indicators in Lebanon: A practical municipal level approach

Cited by 60 publications

References 14 publications

Using Simo's Procedures to Rank Indicators for City Rating System

Using Simo's Procedures to Rank Indicators for City Rating System

Measurement indicators and an evaluation approach for assessing urban sustainable development: A case study for China's Jining City

A limits-oriented approach to sustainable planning assessments: a comparative analysis of South East Queensland (Australia) and Lombardia (Italy)

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