Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2: The Environmental Assessment Methods

by Deakin; Mark

• ISBN13: 9780415322164
• ISBN10: 0415322162
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This second volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Seriesfocuses on assessing the impact of the urban process and providing statements as to the sustainability of development plans, programmes and projects. It sets out the regulatory framework and revisits the methodological issues presented in Volume 1 of the series, providing detailed examination of environmental, economic and social evaluations of sustainable urban development. Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2: The Environmental Assessment Methodsdraws attention to the impact that development - in the form of buildings, utilities and transportation systems - has on natural resource consumption and the quality of cultural heritage.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Environmental Assessment	p. 19
Environmental Assessments within the EU	p. 21
Systems Thinking-based Approaches	p. 45
The Multimodal System Approach to Sustainability Planning Evaluation	p. 47
The Human Sustainable City: Values, Approaches and Evaluative Tools	p. 65
The Role of Evaluation in Supporting a Human Sustainable Development: A Cosmonomic Perspective	p. 94
The Role of Modelling in Urban Sustainability Assessment	p. 110
Methods for Environmental Valuations	p. 139
Evaluation of Sustainable Urban Development: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Multicriteria Analysis	p. 141
Economic Valuation, Values and Contingent Method: An Overview	p. 158
The Hedonic Price Method	p. 191
Methods for Environmental, Economic and Social Assessments	p. 205
Simple, Complex and Advanced Evaluations	p. 207
The Analytic Hierarchy Process	p. 209
Ecological Footprint Analysis: A Useful Method for Exploring the Interaction Between Lifestyles and the Built Environment	p. 223
Urban Spiders: A Comparative Framework for Evaluation and Scenario Analysis	p. 236
A Sustainable Test Method for Urban Green Areas Using the Flag Method: A Comparative Study of Leipzig	p. 254
Evaluation of Mixed Land Use Using Regime Analysis	p. 267
Advanced Evaluations of Urban Land Use	p. 283
The Assessment of Multi-Functional Land Use	p. 285
The PROPOLIS Model for Assessing Urban Sustainability	p. 306
Advanced Evaluations of Urban Land Use, Buildings and Estates	p. 327
Sustainability Assessment of Building Design, Construction and Use	p. 329
Life Cycle Analysis of Buildings, Groups of Buildings and Urban Fragments	p. 348
Very Advanced Evaluations of Neighbourhoods, Districts and Cities	p. 373
The AUSTIME Methodology: Quantifiable Sustainability Assessment Coupled with Multi-agent Simulation	p. 375
HQE[superscript 2]R - Research and Demonstration for Assessing Sustainable Neighbourhood Development	p. 412
Assessing Sustainable Community Development Proposals	p. 429
Evaluating the Sustainability of Urban Development	p. 445
Methodological Issues in the Assessment of Environmental Equity and Environmental Justice	p. 447
Participative and Interactive Evaluation: A Review of the Methodologies	p. 473
Constructing Sustainable Urban Futures: From Models to Competing Pathways	p. 492
Conclusions	p. 510
Index	p. 518
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