Bridging the gaps between theory and practice: a service niche approach to urban sustainability indicators

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 329-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Keirstead ◽  
Matt Leach
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Urban Sustainability Indicators

scholarly journals A Framework for Measuring Urban Sustainability in an Emerging Region: The City of Duhok as a Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 5402
Author(s):  
Azad Hassan ◽  
Zeenat Kotval-K
Keyword(s):  
General Trend ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
The Political ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Sustainability Indicators

The City of Duhok in Iraq, as one of the Kurdistan Region’s (KR) main cities, is concerned about sustainability but lacks the measures to guide urban policies. This study bridges this gap and offers an example of the use of urban sustainability indicators in an emerging region that experiences rapid urbanization and growth. The substantial objective of this study was to develop a functional framework of indicators to assess and measure urban sustainability for the city after KR’s declaration of autonomy in 1991 until 2010. That is, we limited our investigation to examining previous research, which decisively contains the approach to “measuring urban sustainability”. The study followed a three-step approach to examine urban sustainability as an integration of a few other relevant studies. The study concluded with two facts: First, the lack of progress on urban sustainability in the first decades resulted from the destabilized era that left the city administratively fragmented. Second, the political and economic watershed led to steady progress towards urban sustainability post-2005. The study highlights nine urban sustainability indicators, from a total of 39 indicators, that played an important role in navigating the general trend of urban sustainability in the city and how they can be used to promote future sustainable practices.

Sustainable and inclusive – Evaluating urban sustainability indicators’ suitability for measuring progress towards SDG-11

2020 ◽  
pp. 239980832097540
Author(s):  
Ryan Thomas ◽  
Angel Hsu ◽  
Amy Weinfurter
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Urban Sustainability Indicators

The adoption of the sustainable development goals marks a transition in the global sustainability discourse to a growing focus on equity, with urban areas’ role in achieving sustainable and inclusive growth more explicit in sustainable development goal-11. Within this discourse, urban sustainability indicators could be used to monitor environmental quality and equity within individual cities, while promising to deepen our understanding of how urban areas contribute to global environmental sustainability. We examine 484 indicators of urban and regional environmental sustainability sourced from 40 indexes and online data repositories to determine their suitability for measuring both urban environmental performance and equity. Despite the large number of existing indicators related to urban environmental monitoring, we find that they are inadequate as tools for evaluating progress towards sustainable development goal-11’s integrated goal of sustainable and inclusive (i.e. equitable) urban areas, due to a lack of benchmarks, targets, and explicit measurement of equity considerations. Future research should emphasize data collection that can be disaggregated geographically to make it possible to measure distributional equity and establish locally appropriate benchmarks and realistic targets for urban sustainability indicators. Lastly, we argue that utilizing large-scale, high-resolution datasets has the potential to help overcome these data collection challenges.

Localising urban sustainability indicators: The CEDEUS indicator set, and lessons from an expert-driven process

Cities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 102683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Steiniger ◽  
Elizabeth Wagemann ◽  
Francisco de la Barrera ◽  
María Molinos-Senante ◽  
Rodrigo Villegas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Urban Sustainability Indicators

scholarly journals Enhancing Urban Sustainable Indicators in a German City—Towards Human-Centered Measurements for Sustainable Urban Planning

World ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-123
Author(s):  
Caroline Kramer ◽  
Madeleine Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Indicator Approach ◽  
City District ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Sustainable Indicators

This contribution demonstrates how more human-centered measurements for sustainable urban planning can be created by enlarging the traditional set of urban sustainability indicators. In many municipal reports, sustainable indicators concentrate on environmental issues, by collecting data at an aggregated spatial and temporal level using quantitative methods. Our approach aims to expand and improve the currently dominant quantitative–statistical methods by including perception geographical data (subjective indicators following the social indicator approach), namely additional indicators at spatial and temporal levels. Including small-scale city district levels and a temporal differentiation produces more process assessments and a better representation of everyday life. Based on a survey we conducted at district levels in the city of Karlsruhe, we cover three sustainability dimensions (ecological, social, economic) and analyze (1) how citizens are mobile in a sustainable way (bike use) and (2) how they perceive and react to heat events in the city. We argue for taking people’s perception and the spatiality and temporality of their daily activities better into account when further developing urban sustainability indicators and when aiming for a sustainable, human-centered urban development.

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