Additional Examples of the Use of Sustainability Indicators at the Local Level

2001 ◽  
pp. 299-302
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Sustainability Indicators

scholarly journals Towards Sustainable Middle Eastern Cities: A Local Sustainability Assessment Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Mustafa Al-Alwani ◽  
Steve Goodhew ◽  
Wei Pan
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Local Sustainability ◽  
Key Indicators

To assist in making Middle Eastern cities more sustainable a guiding methodological framework for local sustainability assessment is key to achieving a sustainable future. This paper investigates available frameworks and develops an approach to local sustainability assessment (LSA), by constructing a methodological framework utilising a combination of (bottom-up) and (top-down) approaches. This facilitates the formulation, selection and prioritisation of key indicators, which can then guide the assessment of a city’s sustainability at a local level in the Middle East. The paper finally applies the LSA methodological framework to the Iraqi city of Hilla and succeeds in formulating and ranking 57 useful and valid sustainability indicators.

scholarly journals Context-Based Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment in Birmingham, Alabama

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9426
Author(s):  
Jimmy Hilley ◽  
Sunhui Sim
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Rating System ◽  
Rating Systems ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Neighborhood Scale ◽  
The City

Sustainability assessment is widely used to monitor public policy toward sustainable development (SD). However, such tools have been less developed at the local level. This research examined sustainability indicators (SIs) applied at the neighborhood scale. The indicators were developed by examination of previously developed sustainability rating systems and issues specific to the City of Birmingham, Alabama, USA. The indicators of Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment (NSA) systems addressed the three major dimensions of sustainability: economic, environmental, and social. The rating system was applied to all neighborhoods, and geographical patterns were analyzed. The ability to analyze the sustainability of all neighborhoods within the city provides information on which areas are performing well and which areas need more attention to become more sustainable.

scholarly journals THE ENVIRONMENT COMPONENT IN SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT AT THE LOCAL LEVEL PLAN

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Hadi Harman Shah ◽  
Shaharudin Idrus ◽  
Abdul Samad Hadi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Goals And Objectives

This article discusses the needs and a possible methodology for assessing the environmental sustainability of local plan. Taking local needs and data available into consideration, using Kuala Selangor District as a hypothetical example, the possibility is explored and visualised spatially. Institutional efforts at sustainability indicators development are also highlighted, beginning with questioning our goals and objectives for development and environmental sustainability to select meaningful indicators.

COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE APPROACH TO DEVELOPING URBAN SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 591-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
AINHOA GONZALEZ ◽  
ALISON DONNELLY ◽  
MIKE JONES ◽  
JUDITH KLOSTERMANN ◽  
ANNEMARIE GROOT ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Practice Approach ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Urban Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Selection Of

In the urban context the quest to enhance economic growth and social well-being is challenged by the need to protect and manage natural resources. In order to promote sustainable urban planning, sustainability objectives are commonly embedded into planning policies, and the associated indicators used to evaluate planning interventions and monitor implementation of such objectives. The applicability of indicators is commonly tied in to their ability to address context-specific issues and monitor progress towards definite goals set at the local level. This paper presents the findings of a participative methodology applied in five European cities to develop a set of sustainability indicators with the aim of optimising their applicability for assessing planning alternatives affecting urban metabolism (i.e. the exchange of materials and energy within cities). The results indicate that engagement of researchers and practitioners through Communities of Practice (CoP) helped bridge the gap between science and practice, and facilitated the selection of consistent and meaningful indicators to be used as a tool for decision-making. However, the results also revealed that planning priorities can significantly shape the extent and scope of sustainability indicators, and that a CoP approach may not always be sufficient to guarantee continuity of collaboration.

scholarly journals THE ENVIRONMENT COMPONENT IN SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT AT THE LOCAL LEVEL PLAN

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Hadi Harman Shah ◽  
Shaharudin Idrus ◽  
Abdul Samad Hadi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Goals And Objectives

This article discusses the needs and a possible methodology for assessing the environmental sustainability of local plan. Taking local needs and data available into consideration, using Kuala Selangor District as a hypothetical example, the possibility is explored and visualised spatially. Institutional efforts at sustainability indicators development are also highlighted, beginning with questioning our goals and objectives for development and environmental sustainability to select meaningful indicators.

scholarly journals Interactive Visualisation of Sustainability Indicators for Water, Energy and Food Innovations

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 1571
Author(s):  
Paula J. Forbes ◽  
Ruth E. Falconer ◽  
Daniel Gilmour ◽  
Nikolay Panayotov
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Sustainability Indicators ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Stakeholder Consultation ◽  
Visualisation Tool ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Interactive Visualisation ◽  
Support Decision Making

The Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus describes the synergies and trade-offs between water, energy and food. Despite the significant attention that the WEF nexus has received in recent years, challenges remain, primarily related to gaps in integrated data, information and knowledge related to the most critical inter-linkages and their dynamics. These WEF nexus complexities and uncertainty make decision-making and future forecasting extremely difficult. Policy makers and other stakeholders are currently faced with the task of understanding longer term environmental impacts and tJhe benefits and limitations of innovations that could be potentially beneficial, such as Anaerobic Digestion as a waste solution or insect protein production. This paper describes an approach to support decision making for local-level innovations within the WEF nexus by creating a set of sustainability indicators and an accompanying interactive visualisation. The indicators were derived from stakeholder consultation processes and workshops, and they were selected to include a much broader assessment than just financial aspects when considering the viability of such innovations. By taking this bottom-up approach and placing stakeholders at the heart of the project, we produced a visualisation tool to support sustainable decision making when considering the implementation of WEF innovations. Considering other, often overlooked factors and giving greater priority to these deepens knowledge and the recognition of influential issues that in conventional processes may be overlooked. This visualisation tool is designed to support decision makers to engage in a exploration of the different interlinkages, and to be the basis of stakeholder dialogue around sustainability. The visualisation tool developed was designed to be easily modifiable in order to be updated with new insights and to include other future innovations.

Do You Want to See the Tree? Ignore the Forest

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Poirel ◽  
Claire Sara Krakowski ◽  
Sabrina Sayah ◽  
Arlette Pineau ◽  
Olivier Houdé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Recognition ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Visual Environment ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Hierarchical Stimuli ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
The One

The visual environment consists of global structures (e.g., a forest) made up of local parts (e.g., trees). When compound stimuli are presented (e.g., large global letters composed of arrangements of small local letters), the global unattended information slows responses to local targets. Using a negative priming paradigm, we investigated whether inhibition is required to process hierarchical stimuli when information at the local level is in conflict with the one at the global level. The results show that when local and global information is in conflict, global information must be inhibited to process local information, but that the reverse is not true. This finding has potential direct implications for brain models of visual recognition, by suggesting that when local information is conflicting with global information, inhibitory control reduces feedback activity from global information (e.g., inhibits the forest) which allows the visual system to process local information (e.g., to focus attention on a particular tree).

Sustainability Indicators of GRIHA Certified Green Buildings in India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Velmurugan Ashokkumar ◽  
Sivakumar Palaniappan ◽  
Aarthipriya Venkataraman
Keyword(s):  
Green Buildings ◽  
Sustainability Indicators

Orthodox arrangement of the Pochaiv Lavra in the second third of the XIX century.

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-41
Author(s):  
Ella Volodymyrivna Bystrytska
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Political Motivation ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Xix Century

Abstract: A series of imperial decrees of the 1820s ordering the establishment of a Greco-Uniate Theological Collegium and appropriate consistories contributed to the spread of the autocratic synodal system of government and the establishment of control over Greek Uniate church institutions in the annexed territories of Right-Bank Ukraine. As a result, the Greco-Uniate Church was put on hold in favor of the government's favorable grounds for the rapid localization of its activities. Basilian accusations of supporting the Polish November Uprising of 1830-1831 made it possible to liquidate the OSBM and most monasteries. The transfer of the Pochaiv Monastery to the ownership of the Orthodox clergy in 1831 was a milestone in the liquidation of the Greco-Uniate Church and the establishment of a Russian-style Orthodox mono-confessionalism. On the basis of archival documents, the political motivation of the emperor's decree to confiscate the Pochayiv Monastery from the Basilians with all its property and capital was confirmed. The transfer to the category of monasteries of the 1st class and the granting of the status of a lavra indicated its special role in strengthening the position of the autocracy in the western region of the Russian Empire. The orders of the Holy Synod outline the key tasks of ensuring the viability of the Lavra as an Orthodox religious center: the introduction of continuous worship, strengthening the personal composition of the population, delimitation of spiritual responsibilities, clarifying the affiliation of the printing house. However, maintaining the rhythm of worship and financial and economic activities established by the Basilians proved to be a difficult task, the solution of which required ten years of hard work. In order to make quick changes in the monastery, decisions were made by the emperor and senior government officials, and government agencies were involved at the local level, which required the coordination of actions of all parties to the process.

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