Sustainability indicator systems within urban governance: Usability analysis of sustainability indicator systems as boundary objects

Holden, Meg

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.03.007

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“…However, their benefits and constraints have been highly contested. Standardize methodologies have been criticized for their restrictive quantitative analysis, their inefficiency to impact decision-making and promoting action based on trends taking little consideration of context specificities [40,41]. Yet, many scholars argue that common indicators are useful for communicating comparative results on SUD policies, problem-solving, contexts while easily communicate progress to a wider public [35,36,40].…”

Section: The Use Of Common Sustainable Development Indicatorsmentioning

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Impacts of Common Urban Development Factors on Cultural Conservation in World Heritage Cities: An Indicators-Based Analysis

2018

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Within the urban context, heritage conservation has been acknowledged as fundamental for sustainable development. This paper address the need to develop methodologies that enable understanding of the dynamics between these two fields that for long were regarded as opposing practices. The research crosses disciplinary boundaries through a mixed methodology that identifies 27 urban development common indicators as factors that are affecting the conservation of 69 World Heritage Cities (WHC). Indicators, which were selected from global urban monitoring tools, were analyzed within UNESCO State-of-Conservation reporting system. Results reveal key trends on urban factors assessed as a SWOT analysis in relation to the management of WHC. We argue that urban indicators can facilitate the understanding of development impacts in cultural heritage conservation, across the social, economic, and environmental dimensions. This paper contributes to the debate on the ability of indicators to bridge interdisciplinary and methodological issues that were related to common conceptualizations between urban development and heritage conservation and sustainability. The conceptual approach that is presented has proven to offer an empirical basis for a monitoring practice that fosters the sustainable management of urban heritage, which in the light of the New Development Agenda and the gaps in the state-of-the-art, is very much needed.

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Section: The Use Of Common Sustainable Development Indicatorsmentioning

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Impacts of Common Urban Development Factors on Cultural Conservation in World Heritage Cities: An Indicators-Based Analysis

2018

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“…Indicators help to explore mediating factors and their presence helps to strengthen the casual links in the implementation theory (Rogers, 2007). Indicators can be either quantitative or qualitative and must be 1) relevant (e.g., resonating with community values and interests), appropriate (e.g., easily understood), measurable (e.g., calculated or interpreted over time), reportable (e.g., based on available data), comparable (e.g., used in multiple cases), and verifiable (e.g., confirmed by others) (Taylor and Botschner, 1998;Holden, 2013;The Fraser Basin Council, 2011). The table below unpacks the five anticipated outcomes into categories of evidence, and then further into corresponding sample indicators.…”

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Towards a Theory of Change for Community-based Research Projects

Janzen

Ochocka

Stobbe

2017

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The purpose of this article is to present a preliminary theory of change for community-based research projects. The theory of change emerged from a Canadian Summit titled, "Pursuing Excellence in Collaborative Community-Campus Research." The article begins by providing a rationale for why a theory of change could be helpful to advance the agenda of community-based research (i.e., concept clarification, guide to action, and quality assessment). Next we describe how our preliminary theory of change was developed, before outlining the theory of change under the headings of activities, intended outcomes, and sample indicators. We conclude by discussing what is needed in order to deepen our understanding of the theory of change for community-based research projects.

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“…In the North American context-Vancouver's Vital Signs (Vancouver Foundation), Seattle's Happiness Initiative and LEED-ND (US Green Building Council) was raised attention the need for a decisive policy change by a comparative analysis of three sustainability indicator systems [29].These cases have shown some important outcomes toward including a new policy boundary as a political contribution to government.…”

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Multi-Criteria Indicator for Sustainability Rating in Suppliers of the Oil and Gas Industries in Brazil

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Abstract:The necessity of sustainability evaluation is rapidly growing alongside the expansion of civilization. Likewise, the supply chain suitability improvement is a need that has arisen in the petroleum industry, especially as it is responsible for the most part of CO 2 emissions in the atmosphere. The modeling of this kind of problem deals with multiple criteria evaluations. This paper proposes an original multiple-criteria based approach to classifying the degree of organizational sustainability. This proposal was applied to evaluate a representative set of companies, which are suppliers of the Brazilian petroleum industry. The data collection was supported by a questionnaire. The results highlight that the studied companies have not yet reached an advanced level of maturity in the sustainability context. In a comprehensive vision of sustainability based on Triple Bottom Line (TBL), these companies are either in the initial stage or in the implementation phase of the sustainability practices.

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Sustainability indicator systems within urban governance: Usability analysis of sustainability indicator systems as boundary objects

Cited by 80 publications

References 25 publications

Impacts of Common Urban Development Factors on Cultural Conservation in World Heritage Cities: An Indicators-Based Analysis

Impacts of Common Urban Development Factors on Cultural Conservation in World Heritage Cities: An Indicators-Based Analysis

Towards a Theory of Change for Community-based Research Projects

Multi-Criteria Indicator for Sustainability Rating in Suppliers of the Oil and Gas Industries in Brazil

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