Abstract: Explores the concept of sustainability and the derivation of sustainability indicators. Two general conceptions of sustainability; Criteria proposed for indicators; Indicators developed in the area of sustainability; Development of indicators in the national and international levels; Development of sustainability indicators in Scotland. INSETS: Frameworks for sustainability indicator ...

objectives: the present study is to assess overview on literature and social sustainability assessment and identification of its main components, while introducing the appropriate framework for choosing indicators with a systematic and integrated approach to assess and prioritize the amount of social sustainability in five areas of the city bandar turkmen pay. method: data collected through que...

the objective of this study is to measure the city of tehran’s environmental quality in 2006 (the last census year). primarily, with a comparative analysis of a variety of urban sustainability indicator models, a collection of 54 indicators have been chosen and categorized as indicators of increase or decrease in urban environmental quality in the form of a simple mathematical model. based o...

There has been much interest in the neo-Foucauldian framework of governmentality as a way of understanding contemporary policy processes. In this paper I examine evidence from a case study of local sustainability indicators in the light of this framework. The role of indicators as a potential governmental technology is addressed, covering issues of their ability to objectify sustainability, the...

Anthropogenic activity interacts with urban form and inner metabolic processes, ultimately impacting urban sustainability. China’s cities have experienced many environmental issues and metabolic disturbances since the nation-wide market-oriented “reform and opening-up” policy was adopted in the 1980s. To analyze urban reform policy impacts and metabolism sustainability at a settlement scale, th...

urban parks as public green space have played a unique and indispensable role in providing recreation opportunities and functions to urban populations. as a result of population growth and density, the sustainability of urban parks is a challenging management task. there exists a need to adopt effective management strategies for achieving the sustainable development and management of urban park...

following the changes in the paradigm of urban studies in recent years, sustainability has become an increasingly important issue in the neighborhood’s planning and designing. however, this concept has originally been developed for american and european neighborhoods’ planning, it could also be customized for other neighborhoods’. additionally, in the neighborhood scale, the quality parameter f...

With urban population increasing dramatically worldwide, cities are playing an increasingly critical role in human societies and the sustainability of the planet. An obstacle to effective policy is the lack of meaningful urban metrics based on a quantitative understanding of cities. Typically, linear per capita indicators are used to characterize and rank cities. However, these implicitly ignor...

Like any living system, urban communities consume material and energy inputs, process them into usable forms, and eliminate the wastes from the process. This can be seen as "metabolism" of industry, commerce, municipal operations and households. Understanding the pattern of these energy and material flows through a community's economy provides a systemic reading of the present situation for goa...

Population urbanization is a global trend, and socioeconomic activities in urban areas cause changes that affect the environment and human well-being beyond the specific territories, thus connecting urban to non-urban areas and creating city-regions. This article’s objective, from an ecosystem perspective, is to gather a set of information on municipalities (counties) belonging to the Middle Pa...