How Green Is the City?: Sustainability Assessment and the Management of Urban Environments

Published by Columbia University Press 2001

How Green Is the City?

Sustainability Assessment and the Management of Urban Environments

Edited by: Dimitri Devuyst
In collaboration with: Luc Hens and Walter De Lannoy

https://doi.org/10.7312/devu11802

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About this book

This book deals with practical ways to reach a more sustainable state in urban areas through such tools as strategic environmental assessment, sustainability assessment, direction analysis, baseline setting and progress measurement, sustainability targets, and ecological footprint analysis.

Author / Editor information

Dimitri Devuyst is a postdoctoral fellow for the Fund for Scientific Research in Flanders, Belgium, and visiting professor of ecology at the Human Ecology Department at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

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Xuemei Bai:
The book provides a good, comprehensive update on the tools of sustainability assessment.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Boxes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xxiii
The Conundrum of Urban Sustainability William E. Rees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Chapter 1. Sustainable Development in Urban Areas: An Overview Rodney R. White and Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 2. Local Agenda 21: The Pursuit of Sustainable Development in Subnational Domains William M. Lafferty and Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter 3. The Eco-City Approach to Sustainable Development in Urban Areas Mark Roseland and Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
An Example of Eco-City Development: Urban Agriculture Thomas van Wijngaarden and Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter 4. Sustainable Development at the Local Level: The North-South Context Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 5. Linking Impact Assessment with Sustainable Development and the Introduction of Strategic Environmental Assessment Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Chapter 6. Strategic Environmental Assessment and the Decision-Making Process Lone Koernoev and Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter 7. Sustainability Assessment at the Local Level Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Chapter 8. Sustainability Assessment in Practice: Case Studies Using the ASSIPAC Methodology Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Chapter 9. Direction Analysis: An Example of Municipal Sustainability Assessment in Norway Carlo Aall and Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter 10. Indicators of Sustainable Development Thomas van Wijngaarden and Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Chapter 11. Indicators for Sustainable Development in Urban Areas Elizabeth Kline and Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Additional Examples of the Use of Sustainability Indicators at the Local Level Mark Roseland and Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Chapter 12. Sustainability Reporting and the Development of Sustainability Targets Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
Chapter 13. Global Change, Ecological Footprints, and Urban Sustainability William E. Rees and Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Chapter 14. Striving for Sustainability via Behavioral Modification at the Household Level: Psychological Aspects and Effectiveness Paul Harland, Henk Staats and Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Global Action Plan Research in Switzerland Susanne Bruppacher and Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
Chapter 15. Sustainable Lifestyle Assessment Dimitri Devuyst and Sofie Van Volsem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Linking Sustainability Assessment to a Vision for a Sustainable Future Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
Introduction to Sustainability Assessment at the Local Level Dimitri Devuyst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 488

eBook

Published: August 1, 2001
ISBN: 9780231518024