Sustainability and Cities - Concept and Assessment

Ooi, Giok Ling

doi:10.1142/9789812775290

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“…While there are scholars who believe that generally cities are inherently unsustainable [11,12] because of their reliance on materials and energy sources located elsewhere, there are governments in Asia who have introduced sustainable cities initiatives with the surrounding rural areas included [37] and there are networks of cities focused on working to achieve sustainability [13]. Other scholars might not necessarily agree with such a view of sustainability applied to cities but these tend to suggest that cities can focus to a greater extent on how they can be organised and managed far more sustainably than they are at present [14][15][16][17].…”

Section: Sustainability and Urban Growth Trendsmentioning

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Challenges of sustainability for Asian urbanisation

Ooi

2009

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Challenges of sustainability for Asian urbanisation

Ooi

2009

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“…Research of this kind is in need because a large body of literature like Vining and Ebreo (1990), Oskamp et al (1991), Werner and Makela (1998) and Robinson and Read (2005) studied what motivate people to recycle but nearly all focussed on low-rise housing. While waste recycling by residents in a multi-family housing, particularly in high-rise housing estates, has been regarded challenging (De Young et al, 1995;Ooi, 2005), determination of recycling behaviour in such setting is largely omitted in the literature. Hong Kong, in which 80% of the total housing stock is high-rises, provides an excellent laboratory for studying collective environmental action like recycling in a high-rise high-density context.…”

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Domestic waste recycling, collective action and economic incentive: The case in Hong Kong

Yau

2010

Waste Management

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Efficacy of waste recycling is one of the key determinants of environmental sustainability of a city. Like other pro-environmental activities, waste recycling cannot be successfully accomplished by just one or two people, but only by a concerted effort of the community. The collective-action dilemma creates a common underlying difficulty in formulating workable solutions to many environmental problems. With a view to the non-excludability of the outcome, rationality drives people to free-ride efforts of others in waste recycling. To solve this free-rider problem, some scholars suggest the use of economic incentive. This article attempts to study the impacts of reward schemes on waste recycling behaviour of residents in 122 private housing estates in Hong Kong. The study is differentiable from the others as the latter mainly focus on domestic waste recycling in low-rise low-density housing while this one looks into the same in a high-rise high-density residential setting. According to the results of analyses on a set of aggregate data, reward schemes are found to have a significant positive relationship with the per-household weight of recyclables collected, keeping other things constant. The research findings suggest that economic incentives do work in promoting waste recycling in Hong Kong. Practical and policy implications follow.

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“…In this sense, sustainability indicators, which are accepted by politicians and academics to measure the advances in sustainability in a given territory, will provide information and facilitate communication between experts, decision makers, and the public in general [9]. Indeed, they reflect one of the greatest efforts of urban settlements to evaluate their progress towards sustainable development [10].…”

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Assessment of sustainability in urban planning of a coastal city: the city of Coronel, southern Chile

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Rojas³

et al. 2009

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Population increases in the coastal area in the Bío Bío region (Chile) have transformed the urban landscape, creating the need for new urban areas for residential land use. This expansion has resulted in the use of locations vulnerable to natural hazards, and outpacing urban planning instruments. The city of Coronel is a typical urban space located in this coastal zone. Coronel's Urban Planning was recently updated in 2003, and the present study's objective is to evaluate its environmental sustainability using a system of indicators applicable to the proposed land coverage model established in the 2003 urban planning instrument.Urban sustainability indicators are obtained using Geographic Information System (GIS) tools. The indicators are based on three territorial components: the distribution of land use and physical structure, land coverage and environmental quality. The data is gathered in the proposed urban land zonings. The method applies sustainability development concepts in data modeling, spatial analysis and geoprocessing in GIS. The results characterize the proposed urban model's sustainability.

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Sustainability and Cities - Concept and Assessment

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Challenges of sustainability for Asian urbanisation

Challenges of sustainability for Asian urbanisation

Domestic waste recycling, collective action and economic incentive: The case in Hong Kong

Assessment of sustainability in urban planning of a coastal city: the city of Coronel, southern Chile

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