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HOLISTIC URBAN SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENT TOOL

M. S. Gaman, A. M. Branea, S. Badescu

First published: 2019https://doi.org/10.5593/SWS.ISCSS.2019.5/S19.044View metrics

Abstract

The need to steer our development towards a more sustainable future is ever more imminent in the light of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. Urban areas bear much of the blame and burden and interventions towards urban sustainability may have the greatest impact. Despite increasing interest in urban sustainability, from both the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world, its clear definition and especially its measurement and monitoring is still a cause of heated debate. A wide variety of studies, diagrams, graphic models or value maps have been proposed, as each researcher and national agency develops its own framework and quantification system based on locally specific characteristics. Building on the authors previously published critical analysis of the most widely used and accepted systems of urban sustainability analysis and measurement, a set of complementary holistic urban sustainability diagrams is proposed. The design objective consisted in the creation of an easy to use tool combining the strengths of the analyzed systems and adding much needed features and state-of-the-art sustainability principles to increase the level of analysis detail and personalization and adaptability, readability, and most importantly the ability to compare both different locations and over time development.

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Title
HOLISTIC URBAN SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS AND MEASUREMENT TOOL
Authors
M. S. Gaman, A. M. Branea, S. Badescu
Proceedings
6th SWS International Scientific Conference on Social Sciences ISCSS 2019
Publisher
STEF92 Technology
Year
2019
Pages
351-358
SWS Citekey
Gaman201919351358
ISSN
2682-9959
ISBN
978-619-7408-95-9
Language
en
Publication type
Proceedings Paper
Keywords
Urban sustainabilitycomparative analysissustainability indexsustainability value map designsustainability assessment
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