scholarly journals How to Contextualize SDG 11? Looking at Indicators for Sustainable Urban Development in Germany

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian Koch ◽  
Kerstin Krellenberg
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
National Level ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Global North ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

Agenda 2030 pursues a universal approach and identifies countries in the Global South and in the Global North that are in need of transformation toward sustainability. Therefore, countries of the Global North such as Germany have signed the commitment to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the SDGs need to be “translated” to the specific national context. Existing sustainability indicators and monitoring and reporting systems need to be adjusted as well. Our paper evaluates how three different initiatives translated SDG 11 (“Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable”) to the German context, given the specific role of cities in contributing to sustainable development. These initiatives included the official ‘National Sustainable Development Strategy’ of the German Government, a scientific initiative led by the ‘German Institute for Urban Affairs’, and a project carried out by the ‘Open Knowledge Foundation’, a non-governmental organization (NGO). This article aims to analyze how global goals addressing urban developments are contextualized on a national level. Our findings demonstrate that only a few of the original targets and indicators for SDG 11 are used in the German context; thus, major adjustments have been made according to the main sustainability challenges identified for Germany. Furthermore, our results show that the current contextualization of SDG 11 and sustainable urban development in Germany are still ongoing, and more changes and commitments need to be made.

scholarly journals Sustainability and Water Sensitive Cities: Analysis for Intermediary Cities in Andalusia

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Bermejo-Martín ◽  
Carlos Rodríguez-Monroy
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Urban Population ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Local Character ◽  
Urban Sustainable Development ◽  
2030 Agenda

There is currently a phenomenon of global urbanization, where in Europe intermediary cities play a major role by concentrating more than 40% of the European urban population. These types of cities have specific challenges regarding their sustainability and are key to meeting the objectives set out in the UN 2030 Agenda (United Nations, UN), due to their local character and proximity to the citizen. The intermediary cities of Andalusia in Spain, its urban sustainable development and its relationship with water are the object of analysis in this article. They are analyzed through the winning plans in the first call of the Spanish “Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategy ” (ISUDS). In this process, the citizens are the main actors through their participation in the elaboration of the ISUDS, in which they express the scope of the “hydrosocial contract ” of citizenship. The research presented in this article analyzes the latter through a methodological framework applied to the ISUDS, which shows the unequal interest of Andalusian intermediary cities when integrating water into their sustainable development. The article ends with a series of recommendations that make it possible to bring these cities closer to the “water sensitive cities ” stage.

SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT: THE FRAMEWORK AND DIRECTORY OF ASSESSMENT METHODS

2002 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 171-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK DEAKIN ◽  
STEVE CURWELL ◽  
PATRIZIA LOMBARDI
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Assessment Methods ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Concerted Action ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Environmental Capacity ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Action Programme ◽  
The City

Sustainable development is an issue that has attracted a considerable amount of academic interest since the publication of the Brundtland Report. With Agenda 21, it is an issue which has also found its way into the policy and action programmes of the European Commission. For Europe and its member states, the issue has become one of sustainable urban development and this paper reports on the interim findings of a concerted action programme undertaken to foreground the urban question, develop a framework for the analysis of sustainable development and compile a directory of methods to assess the sustainability of urban development. It classifies the assessment methods in question and goes on to map their applications across the sustainable development issues represented in the framework for analysis. Having done this, the paper goes on to set out how the said methods are being used to build the environmental capacity that is needed for the city of tomorrow to carry its cultural heritage and develop forms of human settlement which are sustainable.

scholarly journals Infrastructure and Ecology as Important Systems for Sustainable Urban Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 4219-4223
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
World Population ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
New Vision ◽  
The City

A new vision of the global needs of mankind is embodied in the concept of sustainable development, which means meeting the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability to meet their needs by future generations. Today, more than half of the world population lives in cities, the development of which is influenced by many interdependent factors, so there is a need for a clear and holistic approach to sustainable urban development. The aim of this paper is to study urban infrastructure in the aspect of its greening as an important component of the sustainable development system of the city. The paper analyzes the academic literature on the problem of greening urban infrastructure as the basis for sustainable development of the city. The determination of the main elements of green infrastructure and technologies in the field of green infrastructure in foreign countries has been carried out. Particularly significant action strategies for cities have been identified as part of a sustainable development policy.

scholarly journals Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Targets: A Possible Harmonisation? Insights from the European Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Petti ◽  
Claudia Trillo ◽  
Busisiwe Ncube Makore
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
National Databases

The Agenda 2030 includes a set of targets that need to be achieved by 2030. Although none of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focuses exclusively on cultural heritage, the resulting Agenda includes explicit reference to heritage in SDG 11.4 and indirect reference to other Goals. Achievement of international targets shall happen at local and national level, and therefore, it is crucial to understand how interventions on local heritage are monitored nationally, therefore feeding into the sustainable development framework. This paper is focused on gauging the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals with reference to cultural heritage, by interrogating the current way of classifying it (and consequently monitoring). In fact, there is no common dataset associated with monitoring SDGs, and the field of heritage is extremely complex and diversified. The purpose for the paper is to understand if the taxonomy used by different national databases allows consistency in the classification and valuing of the different assets categories. The European case study has been chosen as field of investigation, in order to pilot a methodology that can be expanded in further research. A cross-comparison of a selected sample of publicly accessible national cultural heritage databases has been conducted. As a result, this study confirms the existence of general harmonisation of data towards the achievement of the SDGs with a broad agreement of the conceptualisation of cultural heritage with international frameworks, thus confirming that consistency exists in the classification and valuing of the different assets categories. However, diverse challenges of achieving a consistent and coherent approach to integrating culture in sustainability remains problematic. The findings allow concluding that it could be possible to mainstream across different databases those indicators, which could lead to depicting the overall level of attainment of the Agenda 2030 targets on heritage. However, more research is needed in developing a robust correlation between national datasets and international targets.

Coordinating sustainability, globalization and urban intelligence with the Habitat III and 2030-SDG agendas: the challenge of sustainable urban development in cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (66) ◽  
pp. 36-52
Author(s):  
Henry Caicedo Asprilla
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Conditioning Factors ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Development Goals

Currently, there are difficulties in coordinating the three determinants of urban development in cities: Globalization, Urban Intelligence, and Sustainability. This makes it difficult to implement the agendas of the Sustainable Development Goals and Habitat III. This article features an introduction, discussion on the tensions among the determinants of Sustainable Urban Development (SUD). The idea of a sustainable city, which is defended in this research, is proposed thereafter, which seeks to establish the degree of consistency between these three factors. The methodology is described next on: 83 cities were sampled and the simple and multiple correspondence analysis techniques were applied. Then, we move on to the results, which found that while the three phenomena are congruent, it is not the same in every city. It was also evidenced that the greater the urban intelligence of a city, the more sustainable it will be; and the less sustainable it will be if it is oriented only towards globalization. Finally, it is concluded that if a city wants to be sustainable, it must make efforts to coordinate a joint agenda with all three conditioning factors to balance them out and neglect none.

scholarly journals INVESTIGATING URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY AS MECHANISM TO PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narimah Samat ◽  
Mohd Amirul Mahamud ◽  
Mohammad Javad Maghsoodi Tilaki ◽  
Mohd Azmeer Abu Bakar ◽  
Leong Tan Mou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Urban Growth Boundary ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

Urban encroachment into the peri-urban areas has blurred the borders between urban and rural areas. Thus, the urban growth boundary (UGB) has been used to encourage the sustainable development of cities and improve long-term planning efficiency. Studying the understanding of the UGB concept in ensuring sustainable development in Malaysia would be beneficial. This study aimed to investigate the perception and understanding of the UGB concept and function to achieve sustainable urban development. An online survey was conducted involving 82 experts, which comprised planners from PLANMalaysia and academicians in the field of urban planning. Results indicated that the perception of the UGB score was significantly greater by 1.16 than the normal score of 3, which indicated that the experts agreed that UGB could improve the urban development. The findings also indicated that the existing planning policy and inclusion of UGB had protected agricultural and natural land; however, stricter and tighter borderless development should be conducted.

Urboecology Problems in Building the Quality Index of the Urban Environment and its Use for Assessing the Sustainable Development of Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 67-71
Author(s):  
D.M. Suvorov ◽  
L.A. Suvorova ◽  
T.V. Baybakova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Quality Index ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Environmental Characteristics ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Development ◽  
Dynamic Quality

The analysis of domestic and foreign sources on the methodology of construction and use of integral indices of quality of the urban environment and sustainable urban development was carried out. It is shown that these indices can be represented as urban-ecological in a broad sense. A method developed by the authors for the formation of a dynamic quality index of the urban environment, which allows the dynamics of the index and its components to evaluate both the quality of the urban environment and the direction of its change, is presented. Using the example of Kirov, the environmental characteristics of the urban environment, taken into account when calculating the index, and the problems of their measurement and presentation are described in detail. The prospects of the developed methodology for solving problems of urban ecological development are shown.

scholarly journals Sustainable Urban Development System Measurement Based on Dissipative Structure Theory, the Grey Entropy Method and Coupling Theory: A Case Study in Chengdu, China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qunxi Gong ◽  
Min Chen ◽  
Xianli Zhao ◽  
Zhigeng Ji
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Dissipative Structure ◽  
Central City ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Structure Theory ◽  
Coupling Theory ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The City

With the rapid advancement of urbanization, the sustainable development of the city has received more and more attention. The measurement of the sustainable development of a city can provide an important reference for the development of the city. Therefore, this paper firstly constructs an index system for five dimensions: society, the economy, the environment, resources, and technology. Then, a sustainable development measurement model is established based on dissipative structure theory, grey entropy and coupling theory, and the evolution trend and coordinated development of the city are measured. Finally, Chengdu, an important central city in the western region of China, is selected for sustainable development measurement research, from which it was found that the city became more sustainable and more orderly, the development level was constantly improving, and the coordination was continuously improving, which was consistent with the actual situation and indicated that the proposed measurement model could effectively measure and evaluate sustainable urban development.

scholarly journals Sustainable Urban Development Strategic Initiatives

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Margarita Panteleeva ◽  
Svetlana Borozdina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Strategic Initiatives ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Capital Construction ◽  
The City

In order to ensure the implementation of the “Strategy for the Development of the Construction Industry of the Russian Federation until 2030” and the implementation of the UN resolution on sustainable development, there is a need to develop new strategic management initiatives. They should allow authorities to make inter-city comparisons, considering specific cities and their objects against the background of others undergoing similar development processes. In this article, the authors propose strategic initiatives for the management of urban facilities. In particular, the authors’ approach to the assessment of the sustainable development of housing and communal service facilities in the city is proposed. According to the authors, the housing and communal city service objects mean capital construction objects in different forms of reproduction. Moreover, the article examines both residential buildings and structures, and utility networks. The authors’ approach consists in the constant assessment of the city’s housing and communal service facilities at different stages of their operation. For this, the authors use several types of analysis: ex post analysis, ex ante analysis, and foresight analysis. For each type of analysis, the authors form a set of assessment indicators and indicate the period of the analysis. The result of the study is the development of an indicator for the assessment of the level of sustainable development of housing and communal service facilities in the city, and a roadmap for their development strategy. The roadmap is formed considering the introduction of modern end-to-end technologies and digital tools into the work of state bodies. The proposed approach, on the one hand, considers the internal complexity and heterogeneity of the city’s housing and communal service facilities. On the other hand, it is a simple tool for the making of effective management decisions by power structures, as it uses data which are available on a regular basis.

scholarly journals Implementation of the methodological mechanisms for evaluation of the sustainable development in towns

2016 ◽  
pp. 166-176
Author(s):  
Yuriy Zhuk
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
National Level ◽  
Small Towns ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Trends

The need to move on the path of sustainable development is actively discussed in academic and government circles for four decades. During this time the own national concepts and methods of evaluating of the sustainability were created, both in developed and developing countries. In some cases, the number of indicators was calculated by the hundreds. Government authorities began to pay attention to issues of analysis of the sustainability but the problem is that not all the developed techniques are suitable for the practical use due to lack of the sufficient statistical data used in the calculations. It is necessary to highlight the lack of a unified methodology for evaluation of the sustainability that makes it difficult to analyse both global and regional trends and the lack of a systematic approach to the techniques analysis. The concept of sustainable development and its dimensions (economic, ecological and social) are considered in the article. Approaches to evaluating sustainable urban development, particularly at the national level are analysed. The performance indicators, indexes structures of economic, environmental and social dimensions are proposed. Based on the initial data, integral index and the degree of harmonization of sustainable development of ten small towns of Lviv region were calculated. Key words: town, sustainable development, the dimensions of the sustainable development, degree of the harmonization.

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