Measuring the urban sustainable development in cities through a Composite Index: The case of Portugal

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 507-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarida Rodrigues ◽  
Mário Franco
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Urban Sustainable Development

Review of the Evaluation of Urban Sustainable Development

2014 ◽  
Vol 1073-1076 ◽  
pp. 2610-2613
Author(s):  
Ling Zhang ◽  
Lu Pan Wang ◽  
Le He ◽  
Hou Chen Li
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
System Dynamics ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Urban Metabolism ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Index Method ◽  
Urban Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Evaluation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Dynamics Method

City is a kind of synthetic system, which is composed of social, economic and environmental aspects, how to achieve a sustainable development is an important problem for most cities in the world. This paper made a literature review from the composite index method, urban metabolism method and system dynamics method to summary and analysis the urban sustainable development evaluation of existing method. The composite index method is the most concise approach and easy to understand, urban metabolism method can observe the operation of whole city subsystems dynamically, while system dynamics method truly simulates the relationship among city subsystems.

scholarly journals Evaluating Sustainable Development by Composite Index: Evidence from French Departments

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 761
Author(s):  
Jean Bonnet ◽  
Eva Coll-Martínez ◽  
Patricia Renou-Maissant
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Composite Indices ◽  
Hierarchical Ascending Classification

Since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations, sustainability has been a key priority for European governments. While previous studies have investigated the associations between indicators of sustainable development, few have directly considered a multidimensional approach to assess and compare the performance of regions in terms of sustainable development. As such, a comprehensive assessment of regional sustainable performance is thus still needed. In this paper, the concept of sustainability relies on the construction of six composite indices (environment and natural resources, energy transition, sustainable mobility, economic dynamism, social cohesion and solidarity, and governance and citizenship) with the aim to provide an evaluation framework for empirically comparing the performance of the 96 metropolitan French Departments. Each dimension is explored by spatial autocorrelation analysis and Hierarchical Ascending Classification (HAC) to classify French Departments providing five different regional profiles of sustainable development. The findings make it possible to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the departments in the implementation of sustainable development. This approach provides the bases for a systematic monitoring of sustainable development policies at the regional scale.

Research on Optimization of China’s Urban Indemnificatory Housing Supply

2012 ◽  
Vol 479-481 ◽  
pp. 1318-1324
Author(s):  
Zhi Qing Li ◽  
Jin Xin Tian ◽  
Tian Hua Song
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Robust Optimization ◽  
Security System ◽  
Uncertain Demand ◽  
Box Constraints ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
The Past ◽  
Housing Security ◽  
Urban Sustainable Development

The contradiction between the effective supply and the uncertain demand in housing security system, which is an important part of the urban social security system, has been a major obstacle to urban sustainable development since 1998, and how to effectively deal with it is becoming more and more important. In this paper, the uncertain demand of indemnificatory housing, which was caused by the rapid urbanization, is considered, and the models for indemnificatory housing provision under box constraints, ellipsoid constraints and polyhedral constraints are constructed respectively by using distributional robust optimization, and at the same time, the reliability of optimal models in theory is proved in the form of theorem. In the end, as application of models, the paper takes Beijing as an example, and conducts empirical research on provision of indemnificatory housing during the past five years (2006-2010), which shows the effectiveness of the method.

scholarly journals Políticas públicas e desenvolvimento urbano sustentável

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo Rolando De LIMA ◽  
Eduardo L. KRÜGER
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Urban Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
The City ◽  
Future Condition

Considerando que o processo de desenvolvimento urbano implica na multiplicação dos impactos ambientais decorrentes do assentamento humano sobre a área de influência da cidade e a existência de diretrizes de ação visando à promoção da sustentabilidade urbana na Agenda 21 brasileira, bem como nas disposições do Estatuto da Cidade, especialmente no que se refere aos objetivos da política urbana, garantia do direito a cidades sustentáveis, planejamento do desenvolvimento urbano, estudo de impacto de vizinhança e ao Plano Diretor, o trabalho aponta possibilidades de efetivação destas diretrizes e dispositivos legais no gerenciamento urbano por meio de políticas públicas locais no âmbito dos transportes, habitação e uso do solo. Tais políticas deverão estar dirigidas a objetivos ambientais definidos em função do grau de qualidade ambiental urbana presente e da eqüidade da sua distribuição espacial, visando a uma situação futura desejada. Public policies and urban sustainable development Abstract Considering that urban development is directly related to the spreading of environmental impacts caused by human settlements within city limits and the existence of directives in the Brazilian Agenda 21 regarding the promotion of urban sustainability, as well as the content of the City Statute regarding urban policies towards sustainable cities and urban planing, this study presents possibilities of implementing directives and legal measures for urban management by means of local public policies concerning transportation, habitation and land use. Such policies should be directed towards environmental objectives, defined with regard to the present urban environmental quality and spatial distribution, aiming at a desired future condition.

scholarly journals Resources and Environment Carrying Capacity, Social Development and Their Decoupling Relationship: A Case Study of Hubei Province, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (23) ◽  
pp. 12312
Author(s):  
Sheng Ye ◽  
Chao Wei ◽  
Zhanqi Wang ◽  
Han Wang ◽  
Ji Chai
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Index System ◽  
Hubei Province ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Evaluation Index ◽  
Urban Sustainable Development ◽  
Temporal Variance ◽  
Comprehensive Development

With the rapid urbanization in recent decades, resource shortage and environmental damage have hindered the process of urban sustainable development (SD). As a yardstick of sustainable development, the evaluation of resources and environment carrying capacity (RECC) and its decoupling relationship with social comprehensive development index (SCDI) are of great significance. In this paper, RECC and SCDI are taken as research objects to establish resource and environment system evaluation index system and social comprehensive development level evaluation index system, respectively. Then, the RECC and SCDI of 17 cities in Hubei province during 2009–2018 are calculated by the projection pursuit model based on genetic algorithm, and their spatial-temporal variance characteristics are analyzed. On this basis, the RECC-SCDI Tapio decoupling model is constructed to explore the decoupling relationship between RECC and SCDI. The result shows that: (1) The RECC of Hubei shows a V-shaped development trend during 2009–2018. The SCDI of Hubei rose steadily during 2009–2018. (2) RECC in western and eastern Hubei Province is higher than that in central Hubei Province. SCDI in eastern and central Hubei Province is higher than that in the west. (3) 11 of the 17 cities in Hubei Province have got rid of excessive dependence on resources environment for social development. The study could contribute to scientific and effective policies be formulated by government to promote urban sustainable development.

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