Urban Sustainability Reporting

Maclaren, Virginia

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“…Thus, rather than in absolute terms, urban sustainability is commonly conceptualized as a city's ability to maximize relative socioeconomic and environmental benefits while minimizing harm [35]. Within these broad categories, considerations of urban sustainability include inter-and intra-generational equity, protection of the natural environment, minimization of natural resource use, and community and individual well-being [36]. Considerable ambiguity remains in the definition of urban sustainability, but ambiguity is arguably desirable, because it allows communities to adopt individual understandings of sustainability that incorporate local values, circumstances, and environmental considerations [32].…”

Section: Concepts Of Sustainability In Relation To Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The last two decades have also witnessed increasing focus on urban sustainability reporting, from Maclaren [36] identifying a dearth of clear reporting methods to the recent compilation of many new urban sustainability indicator methods [35]. Many urban sustainability indicator frameworks now explicitly address the urban forest canopy, including ISO standard #37120, "Sustainable Development of Communities" [40].…”

Section: Concepts Of Sustainability In Relation To Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Trees in Canadian Cities: Indispensable Life Form for Urban Sustainability

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Abstract:We argue that a healthy urban forest contributes immensely to the sustainability of cities. The argument is based on a comprehensive array of values elicited from Canadians in several cities. To begin, we define the urban forest as inclusive of all the trees in the city and thus representing the predominant contributor to a city's green infrastructure. Then we enumerate and explain the broad diversity of ways in which urban people value trees in the city. We, thus, show the myriad pathways by which trees contribute positively to any city's social, economic, and ecological sustainability. Following a short summary of the ways in which trees may detract from people's quality of life, we present promising management directions for urban-forest improvement, as we understand the situation in Canada. We conclude that all cities can enhance their sustainability by improving the urban forest.

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Section: Concepts Of Sustainability In Relation To Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Concepts Of Sustainability In Relation To Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trees in Canadian Cities: Indispensable Life Form for Urban Sustainability

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“…While all these issues are interrelated and important, the problem of Urbanism is the one that posses challenge [4]. Sustainability has however started to have considerable influence on planning and policy [5]. Urban sustainability requires balance between social, Manuscript received August 27, 2014; revised January 5, 2015.…”

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Ecology and Biodiversity of Proposed Residential Project at Village Waddhamna, Nagpur, Maharashtra

Kulkarni¹,

Chalke²,

Lobo³

2015

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Abstract-Fine envirotech engineers (FEE), Mumbai, India are environment consultants providing multidisciplinary advice on a wide range of strategic and project specific environmental and sustainable issues. Nagpur Housing & Area development, a state government administrative authority, proposes to develop a residential Township in village Waddhamna, Nagpur, India. FEE has been entrusted the job of conducting EIA and Environment monitoring planning (EMP). The project aims at converting the existing land into environmental friendly sustainable township without disturbing the present population and trying to conserve existing ecology and biodiversity. The existing development is spread over a total plot Area of 90, 879.89 sq.mt. The proposed scheme consists of 1653 apartments of which 1625 apartments are to be used for residential purpose and 56 apartments are to be used for commercial purpose.Environmental Monitoring Plan for the proposed project involved looking at an array of impacts the project was expected to have at the proposed site. The impacts are listed further on in the paper. This paper will discuss in detail the ecological status for the proposed infrastructure project. The study was commissioned to review the existing natural ecology and biodiversity element in the Core Area and surrounding region (Buffer Area). The objective was to provide an assessment of present status of flora, fauna and ecological habitat in the site, comment upon the ecological richness, assess the importance of ecologically important or rare variety of floral and faunal species and evaluate possible direct or indirect impact of the project on ecology -biodiversity and suggest relevant mitigation measures.

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“…Segundo MACLAREN (1996), as expressões "sustentabilidade urbana" e "desenvolvimento urbano sustentável" possuem significados muito próximos e têm sido utilizadas indistintamente nos muitos trabalhos já publicados sobre o assunto. Uma forma de distinguir estas duas expressões, entretanto, é considerar a sustentabilidade como um estado desejável ou um conjunto de condições que se mantêm ao longo do tempo.…”

Section: Sustentabilidade Urbanaunclassified

“…Satisfação das necessidades básicas (MACLAREN, 1996). Deste modo, após apresentados os principais conceitos relacionados à sustentabilidade urbana e algumas iniciativas empreendidas no sentido de promovê-la no Brasil e em Portugal, no próximo capítulo são discutidas questões relativas aos indicadores e sua aplicação para monitoração das condições de sustentabilidade nos dois países.…”

Section: Sustentabilidade Urbanaunclassified

Mobilidade urbana sustentável: um estudo comparativo e as bases de um sistema de gestão para Brasil e Portugal

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Urban Sustainability Reporting

Cited by 316 publications

References 4 publications

Trees in Canadian Cities: Indispensable Life Form for Urban Sustainability

Trees in Canadian Cities: Indispensable Life Form for Urban Sustainability

Ecology and Biodiversity of Proposed Residential Project at Village Waddhamna, Nagpur, Maharashtra

Mobilidade urbana sustentável: um estudo comparativo e as bases de um sistema de gestão para Brasil e Portugal

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