Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems

Herausgeber: Binder, Claudia R; Massaro, Emanuele; Wyss, Romano

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides guidelines for assessing the sustainability of urban systems including theory, methods and case studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 188mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1134g
• ISBN-13: 9781108471794
• ISBN-10: 110847179X
• Artikelnr.: 58803295

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; General introduction; Part I. Theoretical Background: 1.
Sustainability assessment: introduction and frameworks Pekka Halla and
Claudia R. Binder; 2. Systems science and sustainability assessment Claudia
R. Binder, Michael Hutter, Melissa Pang and Robert Webb; 3. How values play
into sustainability assessments: challenges and a possible way forward
Franziska Meinherz, Livia Fritz and Flurina Schneider; 4. The politics of
participatory sustainability assessments: an analysis of power Livia Fritz
and Franziska Meinherz; 5. A concept for Sustainability Transition
Assessment (STA): a dynamic systems perspective informed by resilience
thinking Thorsten Schilling, Susan Mühlemeier, Romano Wyss and Claudia R.
Binder; Part II. Integrative Approaches for Sustainability Assessment: 6. A
mixed-method, dialogue-based approach to sustainability assessments:
fostering learning for sustainable development Flurina Schneider; 7.
Sustainability assessment: integrative concept, methodology, and examples
Volker Stelzer and Jürgen Kopfmüller; 8. Sustainability solution spaces
Claudia R. Binder, Marta G. Baldi, Baptiste Gex and Emanuele Massaro; 9.
Assessing urban sustainability through Participatory Multi-Criteria
Approaches (PMCAs): an updated comparative analysis Albert Merino-Saum;
Part III. Perspectives on Urban Sustainability: 10. Conceptualising urban
systems for sustainability assessment: four powerful metaphors Pekka Halla,
Romano Wyss and Claudia R. Binder; 11. Sustainability issues in urban
systems from a metabolic perspective João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Anna
Pagani, Aristide Athanassiadis and Claudia R. Binder; 12. Urban-industrial
supply systems: from global challenges to strong urban sustainability Klaus
Krumme; 13. Indicators for assessing the sustainability of cities Anne
Bösch and André de Montmollin; 14. Ontology-based integration of urban
sustainability indicators Emanuele Massaro, Aristide Athanassiadis,
Achilleas Psyllidis and Claudia R. Binder; Part IV. Focal Points of Urban
Sustainability: 15. Energy challenges in urban systems François Vuille and
François Maréchal; 16. Sustainability assessment of the housing system:
exploring the interplay between the material and social systems Anna
Pagani, Rafael Laurenti and Claudia R. Binder; 17. Sustainability
assessment of urban agriculture Giuseppe Feola, Marlyne Sahakian and
Claudia R. Binder; 18. Cities and entropy: assessing urban sustainability
as a problem of coordination of actions Vinicius M. Nett, João Meirelles
and Fabiano L. Ribeiro; 19. Conceptualising urban systems for ecologic
sustainability assessments: case study of the Stockholm Royal Seaport City
District Ulf Ranhagen and Björn Frostell; 20. A study of ride-sharing
opportunities in the City of Santiago de Chile Emanuele Massaro; 21.
Mosquito-borne disease and human mobility in urban environments Emanuele
Massaro, Damiao Pasetto, Andrea Rinaldo and Claudia R. Binder; Index.