Sustainable Urban Development: The Environmental Assessment Methods

✍ Scribed by Mark Deakin, Gordon Mitchell, Peter Nijkamp, Ron Vreeker

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 542
• Series: Sustainable Urban Development Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set out in Volume 1, Volume 2 examines how well the environmental assessment methods evaluate the ecological integrity of urban development and equity of the resulting resource distribution. The examination focuses on:

• the instruments of environmental assessment
• approaches to environmental assessment based in systems-thinking
• methods for environmental, economic and social assessments
• their use in evaluating the sustainability of urban development.

The Sustainable Urban Development Series contains the research and debate of the BEQUEST (Building, Environmental Quality Evaluation for Sustainability) network funded by the European Commission. Together the books provide a framework, set of protocols, environmental assessment methods and toolkit for policy makers, academics, professionals and advanced level students in urban planning and studies, as well as other areas of the built environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 9
1 Introduction......Page 12
Part 1 Environmental Assessment......Page 30
2 Environmental Assessments within the EU......Page 32
Part 2 Systems Thinking-based Approaches......Page 56
3 The Multimodal System Approach to Sustainability Planning Evaluation......Page 58
4 The Human Sustainable City: Values, Approaches and Evaluative Tools......Page 76
5 The Role of Evaluation in Supporting a Human Sustainable Development: A Cosmonomic Perspective......Page 105
6 The Role of Modelling in Urban Sustainability Assessment......Page 121
Part 3 Methods for Environmental Valuations......Page 150
7 Evaluation of Sustainable Urban Development: Cost–Benefit Analysis and Multicriteria Analysis......Page 152
8 Economic Valuation, Values and Contingent Method: An Overview......Page 169
9 The Hedonic Price Method......Page 202
Part 4 Methods for Environmental, Economic and Social Assessments......Page 216
Part 4.1 Simple, Complex and Advanced Evaluations......Page 218
10 The Analytic Hierarchy Process......Page 220
11 Ecological Footprint Analysis: A Useful Method for Exploring the Interaction Between Lifestyles and the Built Environment......Page 234
12 Urban Spiders: A Comparative Framework for Evaluation and Scenario Analysis......Page 247
13 A Sustainable Test Method for Urban Green Areas Using the Flag Method: A Comparative Study of Leipzig......Page 265
14 Evaluation of Mixed Land Use Using Regime Analysis......Page 278
Part 4.2 Advanced Evaluations of Urban Land Use......Page 294
15 The Assessment of Multi-Functional Land Use......Page 296
16 The PROPOLIS Model for Assessing Urban Sustainability......Page 317
Part 4.3 Advanced Evaluations of Urban Land Use, Buildings and Estates......Page 338
17 Sustainability Assessment of Building Design, Construction and Use......Page 340
18 Life Cycle Analysis of Buildings, Groups of Buildings and Urban Fragments......Page 359
Part 4.4 Very Advanced Evaluations of Neighbourhoods, Districts and Cities......Page 384
19 The AUSTIME Methodology: Quantifiable Sustainability Assessment Coupled with Multi-agent Simulation......Page 386
20 HQE2R – Research and Demonstration for Assessing Sustainable Neighbourhood Development......Page 423
21 Assessing Sustainable Community Development Proposals......Page 440
Part 5 Evaluating the Sustainability of Urban Development......Page 456
22 Methodological Issues in the Assessment of Environmental Equity and Environmental Justice......Page 458
23 Participative and Interactive Evaluation: A Review of the Methodologies......Page 484
24 Constructing Sustainable Urban Futures: From Models to Competing Pathways......Page 503
25 Conclusions......Page 521
Index......Page 529