Evaluating Sustainable Development: in the Built Environment

by Peter Brandon; Patrizia Lombardi (University of Turin, Italy)

• ISBN13: 9781405172349
• ISBN10: 1405172347
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Sustainable development has been characterised by an emphasis on environmental issues and an ad hoc approach to structuring the subject which hinders the development of knowledge in a systematic way. The built environment contributes significantly to the environment but is also one of the major factors in determining whether a community is sustainable in the longer term.A structure is required which aids definition, provides a common set of values, establishes measurement methods to define progress, and suggests a management system and decision protocol which enables practitioners to engage and use the resultant structures and information.This book provides a suggested structure in which all aspects of sustainable development can be included together with a set of evaluation techniques which can be used within the structure to provide assistance to decision making.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Setting the context for evaluating sustainable development

Approaches to evaluation

Time and sustainability

A proposed framework for evaluating sustainable development

The framework as a structuring tool

case studies

Assessment methods

Towards management systems and protocols

The future issues

Appendices

References

Index

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