Methodology to select a set of urban sustainability indicators to measure the state of the city, and performance assessment

Munier, Nolberto

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.01.006

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“…Some studies framed assessments through a hierarchy of goals/objectives/indicators (for instance [56,71]), while others organized around categories/themes (for instance [35,37]). Likewise, some studies organized around guiding principles (for instance [33,34]), while others organized around the three pillars (for instance [59,75]). It is perfectly acceptable for disparate scholars to develop and apply unique frameworks, but it becomes challenging to draw conclusions across studies when the terminology they use is inconsistent with each other's.…”

Section: Recommendationsmentioning

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A Systematic Review of Urban Sustainability Assessment Literature

2017

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Abstract:As the world rapidly urbanizes, there is much focus on achieving sustainability outcomes within cities. Accomplishing this goal requires not only envisioning sustainable cities and implementing strategies, but it also demands assessing progress towards sustainable urban development. Despite a growing literature on sustainability assessment, there is room to further understand the application of sustainability assessment in urban contexts. This paper presents a systematic review of urban sustainability assessment literature to (1) identify the most common methods used for urban sustainability assessment, (2) identify the most common framings for urban sustainability assessment, and (3) identify the most common categories for organizing indicators that measure urban sustainability. This research finds that urban sustainability assessment in general lacks a unifying framing and that it could be better aligned with common sustainability principles. The paper provides recommendations for future urban sustainability assessment research, including the employment of mixed-methods research among other strategies. In closing, this research offers a generic framework around which to structure urban sustainability assessment and within which to assign indicators for measuring progress towards sustainable urban development.

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Section: Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Systematic Review of Urban Sustainability Assessment Literature

2017

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“…Ideally, sustainability assessment should allow for place-specific criteria to be incorporated, enable the application of importance weights to emphasize the criteria's meaning in the evaluation of sustainable development and provide an opportunity for large groups of people to come together and discuss how they define and think of sustainability. This public participation process utilizes sustainability's broad appeal to build a consensus and arrive at an agreed-upon assessment that reflects the views and concerns of the area's residents and stakeholders [21][22][23]. With enhanced public participation, sustainability assessment is more understandable to its audience, more practical for policy makers, and more relevant to local residents and issues.…”

Section: The Spatial Dimensions Of Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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Assessing the Geographic Expression of Urban Sustainability: A Scenario Based Approach Incorporating Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis

Kropp

Lein

2012

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Urban sustainability involves a re-examination of urban development including environmental, social and economic policies and practices that acknowledge the role of cities in global environmental change. However, sustainability remains a broadly defined concept that has been applied to mean everything from environmental protection, social cohesion, economic growth, neighborhood design, alternative energy, and green building design. To guide sustainability initiatives and assess progress toward more sustainable development patterns this construct requires a means to place this concept into a decision-centric context where change can be evaluated and the exploitation of resources, the direction of investment, the orientation of technological development, and institutional programs can be made more consistent with future as well as present needs. In this study the problem of sustainability assessment was examined and a method that couples scenario analysis with spatial multicriteria decision analysis was introduced. The integration of a spatial multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) model for sustainable development with scenario planning resulted in an interpretation of sustainability that is more appropriate for local conditions and useful when exploring sustainability's semantic uncertainties, particularly those alternate perspectives that influence future environments.

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“…Hezri and Dovers [2]; Keirstead and Leach [3]; Miller [4]; Munier [5]). They define the elements and goals of urban sustainability -that is, environmental, economic and social sustainable development in relation to urban settings.…”

Section: Urban Sustainability Indicators As Governance Processesmentioning

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Eco-city indicators: governance challenges

Joss

Tomozeiu

Cowley

2012

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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According to the most recent (2011) global census of eco-city initiatives, there are currently 178 eco-city initiatives under development, representing a significant mainstreaming of urban sustainability in the last decade. As the number of eco-city initiatives grows, so the question of how to define eco-city indicators and establish standards becomes more pressing. While there are many sustainability standards and certification schemes available for use at building level (e.g. LEED, BREEAM), similar sustainability assessment and endorsement frameworks for the urban level have only recently begun to emerge. This article surveys the current situation by: (i) proposing a conceptual model of urban sustainability indicators from a governance perspective; (ii) presenting the findings of a comparative analysis of the use of urban sustainability indicators in nine eco-city initiatives; and (iii) outlining key challenges for the future development of international urban sustainability standards. It argues that the current situation is marked by a considerable diversity of practice and governance functions, and an ongoing tension between place-specificity and universal applicability as goals of urban sustainability.

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Methodology to select a set of urban sustainability indicators to measure the state of the city, and performance assessment

Cited by 95 publications

References 6 publications

A Systematic Review of Urban Sustainability Assessment Literature

A Systematic Review of Urban Sustainability Assessment Literature

Assessing the Geographic Expression of Urban Sustainability: A Scenario Based Approach Incorporating Spatial Multicriteria Decision Analysis

Eco-city indicators: governance challenges

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