Proposal of Indicators to Assess Urban Sustainability in Brazil

Fehr, Manfred; Sousa, Kally Alves de; Pereira, A.F.N.; Pelizer, L.C.

doi:10.1023/b:envi.0000029914.82071.6e

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“…This author's study [31] precedes that of [30] by 11 years, but their review does not cite it. It discusses the establishment of quantitative and widely recognized indicators of sustainability for the conception of long-term municipal policies concerning the environment.…”

Section: Urban Sustainabilitymentioning

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Grading Intellectual Work Output by Fractional Approach to Excellence: A Score Sheet for Every Activity

Fehr¹

2017

Congruence of Personal and Organizational Values

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This communication relates experiences with peer evaluation and self-evaluation of individual and collective professional activities. Grading of intellectual work output proceeds by means of score sheets. A score sheet is a set of requirements for reaching a standard of performance. It assesses the quality of performance as fractional approach to the standard by dividing the fulilled requirements by their total number. Individuals and organizations establish their standards, which represent their values, according to their ambitions of excellence, and monitor the approach with the score sheets. Examples of experiences available so far refer to measuring the qualities of technical reports and essays, of oral presentations, of teacher performance, of environmental performance of schools, of marketing success of horticultural produce, of urban sustainability, and of life at old age. For each of the experiences, the text presents and discusses the pertinent score sheet, which indirectly measures a value by showing the approach to expected performance or behavior. Congruence exists if an organization and its members strive for the same standard of performance.

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Section: Urban Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 97%

Grading Intellectual Work Output by Fractional Approach to Excellence: A Score Sheet for Every Activity

Fehr¹

2017

Congruence of Personal and Organizational Values

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“…The Greater London Authority (GLA) published the London Plan as a spatial development strategy (SDS), focusing on sustainability and spatial plan (2004( , Rev. 2015.…”

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“…There are studies [22,57,58] with the objective to propose regional sustainability assessment tools suitable for the context-specific conditions of a region. The regional neighborhood sustainability assessment tools can be helpful for urban planners, public administrations, developers and architects involved in urban development projects.…”

Section: Comparison Of Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools Amentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The scope of environmental management as a multi-professional activity has become so vast that it is difficult to measure the impact of regional efforts on an international scale. Implementation of international guidelines at the local level faces problems of political, administrative, social, environmental and educational natures [58].…”

Section: Comparison Of Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools Amentioning

confidence: 99%

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Comparative Analysis of Material Criteria in Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools and Urban Design Guidelines: Cases of the UK, the US, Japan, and Korea

Yoon

Park

2015

Sustainability

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Sustainability assessment tools have been developed for building-scale sustainability since the 1990s. Several systems, such as BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology), LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and CASBEE (Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency), are widely used and have been upgraded and adapted to large-scale development. BREEAM Communities, LEED Neighborhood Development and CASBEE for Urban Development have been implemented in the UK, the USA and Japan, respectively. As the notion of sustainable urban design has gained more significance, city governments have set their own guidelines for sustainable standards in urban design based on studies of sustainability assessment tools. This study focused on a comparative analysis of the material criteria embedded for sustainable urban design in BREEAM Communities, LEED-ND (Neighborhood Development) and CASBEE-UD (Urban Development), and the urban design guidelines recently issued in multiple cities, including London, New York, Tokyo, and Seoul. The top master plans and the supplementary guidelines were analyzed to investigate the detailed material criteria. The study examined the differences in the material assessment criteria, evaluation parameters, and descriptions of the neighborhood sustainability assessment tools and the urban design guidelines. The material criteria was OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 14451 investigated and discussed to summarize the current features and weaknesses as balanced material assessments for sustainable urban development.

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“…The measure of relative quality of life is included in the Mercer Index that classifies the World's cities according to the parameters of security, health services, basic sanitation, air pollution, education and transport facilities (Report 2004). Perhaps the most widely known sustainability indicator at present is the Ecological Footprint that measures the energy and material consumption of a society in terms of land area required to satisfy the demand (Rees 1996 In 2004, this author's team proposed a specific set of indicators for urban sustainability that may be determined by local diagnosis and continuous data collection (Fehr et al 2004). As they are meant to identify absolutely defined situations, they may also be referred to as identifiers.…”

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The Threshold Target Approach to Waste Management in Emerging Economies: Pragmatic, Realistic, Appropriate

Fehr¹

2010

Waste Management

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Proposal of Indicators to Assess Urban Sustainability in Brazil

Cited by 24 publications

References 8 publications

Grading Intellectual Work Output by Fractional Approach to Excellence: A Score Sheet for Every Activity

Grading Intellectual Work Output by Fractional Approach to Excellence: A Score Sheet for Every Activity

Comparative Analysis of Material Criteria in Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment Tools and Urban Design Guidelines: Cases of the UK, the US, Japan, and Korea

The Threshold Target Approach to Waste Management in Emerging Economies: Pragmatic, Realistic, Appropriate

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