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Braulio-Gonzalo, Marta
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Bovea, María D
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Ruá, María José
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2015-07
Some efforts to assess sustainability on the urban scale have been made and different tools for measuring the impact on and caused by cities have emerged. However, the sustainability concept varies from region to region, and indicators to measure it should be suitable for the context-specific conditions of the region under study. After doing a comprehensive review of the indicators included in 13 tools developed to assess urban sustainability of cities, this article proposes a new structure of indicators adapted to a Mediterranean city in Spain. The proposed structure is based on a two-level scheme that consists in 14 categories and 63 subcategories, which agglutinate urban sustainability indicators according to their purpose. This structure suggests a set of comprehensible qualitative and quantitative indicators that are easily applicable on neighbourhood or city scales. Given the similar features of Mediterranean countries in terms of environmental and socio-economic aspects, the proposed structure could be extrapolated to other countries with climatic and cultural similarities. Otherwise, the system is a useful tool in the decision-making process to help the different stakeholders involved in new urban developments and regeneration projects in existing neighbourhoods, such as developers, urban planners and public administrations.
BRAULIO-GONZALO, Marta; BOVEA, María Dolores; RUÁ, María José. Sustainability on the urban scale: Proposal of a structure of indicators for the Spanish context. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 2015, vol. 53, p. 16-30.
0195-9255
http://hdl.handle.net/10234/151966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2015.03.002
Built environment
Urban sustainability
Assessment tool
Urban indicator
Sustainability on the urban scale: proposal of a structure of indicators for the Spanish context