Environmentally sustainable cities. Critical review and operational conditions

Bithas, Kostas; Christofakis, Manolis

doi:10.1002/sd.262

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“…Bithas and Christofakis [9] and Fischer et al [10] argue that there is no consensus on the operational content of environmentally sustainable development.…”

Section: Concept Of Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Proposal of a Sustainability Index for the Automotive Industry

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Abstract:In a scenario of increasing globalization, sustainable development has emerged as an attractive and strategic issue for both countries and individual organizations and their supply chains. Companies have faced different challenges in seeking to combine the best economic performance with increased social and environmental responsibility. Monitoring sustainability is essential for decision-making and management of activities that comprise an organization's system processes. Evaluation can be performed using indices or a set of indicators. In addition to increasing organizational effectiveness and improving competitiveness, customer service and profitability, it is also a crucial influence on the development of business sustainability. This paper proposes a sustainability index that provides companies with information about their level of economic, social and environmental sustainability, showing their performance at both individual and supply chain level. The importance of the indicators is assessed by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology applied to a case study of a supply chain in the automotive industry. The various stages experienced during the construction of the index are also shown. The final results achieved are then presented and discussed in light of the objectives. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 2114

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“…Bithas and Christofakis [9] and Fischer et al [10] argue that there is no consensus on the operational content of environmentally sustainable development.…”

Section: Concept Of Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Proposal of a Sustainability Index for the Automotive Industry

et al. 2015

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“…Conceptually, cities appear as accretion of humans and human activities [10]. This accretion of humans and human (anthropogenic) activities is comparatively substantially higher than other places such as the rural areas or the countryside [10][11][12].…”

Section: City Sustainability and Sustainable Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This accretion of humans and human (anthropogenic) activities is comparatively substantially higher than other places such as the rural areas or the countryside [10][11][12]. The anthropogenic activities also comprise activities such as economic, social, cultural and educational.…”

Section: City Sustainability and Sustainable Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated management framework for sustainable cities: insights into multiple concepts and principles

Awuah¹,

Booth²

2014

The Sustainable City IX

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There is a growing call for cities and the built environment to be managed or remanaged based on the idea of sustainability. The rationale is to make cities more resilient and productive as centres of production and consumption, and address the rising environmental and socio-cultural challenges associated with twenty-first century urban centres. There are, however, emerging or extant concepts that attempt to supplant or espouse sustainability principles or related principles; thereby, creating a seemingly unclear framework to drive effective and efficient management of cities. Through interrogation of extant literature, this study identifies four main neighbouring concepts -industrial ecology, natural capitalism, cradle-to-cradle and circular economy and how they compare and contrast with sustainability in the context of the built environment. Despite the seemingly conceptual difference between sustainability and the neighbouring concepts, they prescribe virtually the same set of principles and operationalisation indicators. However, given the multiplicity of the concepts, their set of principles and indicators, and uniqueness of different cities, an initial broad integrated framework needs to be developed based on all the concepts. Subsequently, individual cities taking cognisance of their peculiar circumstances will then have to craft their own frameworks for effective and efficient management in the face of growing economic uncertainties, poverty, rapid urbanisation and other environmental and socio-cultural challenges.

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“…A thorough review of the literature reveals that there is no harmony in the operational contents of sustainable development [38]. It covers dynamic environmental, social, and economic concerns at different spatio-temporal scales [39].…”

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Planning, Development and Management of Sustainable Cities: A Commentary from the Guest Editors

Yiğitcanlar

Kamruzzaman

2015

Sustainability

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Cities are the most dramatic manifestations of human activities on the surface of the earth. These human-dominated organisms-i.e., cities-degrade natural habitats, simplify species composition, disrupt hydrological systems, and modify energy flow and nutrient cycling. Today, these consequential impacts of human activities, originated from population increase, rapid urbanization, high private motor vehicle dependency, deregulated industrialization and mass livestock production, are increasing exponentially and causing great deal of environmental, social, and economic challenges both at global and local scales. In such a situation, establishment of sustainable cities, through sustainable urban development practices, is seen as a potential panacea to combat these challenges responsibly, effectively, and efficiently. This paper offers a critical review of the key literature on the issues relating to planning, development and management of sustainable cities, introduces the contributions from the Special Issue, and speculates on the prospective research directions to place necessary mechanisms to secure a sustainable urban future for all.

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Environmentally sustainable cities. Critical review and operational conditions

Cited by 94 publications

References 6 publications

Proposal of a Sustainability Index for the Automotive Industry

Proposal of a Sustainability Index for the Automotive Industry

Integrated management framework for sustainable cities: insights into multiple concepts and principles

Planning, Development and Management of Sustainable Cities: A Commentary from the Guest Editors

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