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A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools

01 Jan 2013-Environmental Impact Assessment Review (Elsevier)-Vol. 38, Iss: 38, pp 73-87
TL;DR: In this paper, the issues of sustainability coverage, pre-requisites, local adaptability, scoring and weighting, participation, reporting, and applicability are discussed using a content analysis, and the results of this study indicate that most of the tools are not doing well regarding the coverage of social, economic, and institutional aspects of sustainability.
About: This article is published in Environmental Impact Assessment Review.The article was published on 2013-01-01. It has received 480 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainability & BREEAM.
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01 Feb 2017-Cities
TL;DR: Analyzing 16 sets of city assessment frameworks for smart city and sustainable city frameworks suggests that there is a need for developing smart city frameworks further or re-defining the smart city concept, and recommends the use of a more accurate term “smart sustainable cities” instead of smart cities.

838 citations


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  • ...Well-known neighborhood sustainability rating tools, such as LEED, BREEAM and CASBEE, analyzed for example by Sharifi and Murayama (2013), aim at labelling....

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TL;DR: The applied theoretical inquiry into smart sustainable cities of the future is deemed of high pertinence and importance—given that the research in the field is still in its early stages, and that the subject matter draws upon contemporary and influential theories with practical applications.

809 citations

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TL;DR: A critical review of 36 selected community resilience assessment tools is provided, highlighting several other areas of weakness that need to be addressed and discussing major challenges that still remain.

342 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the sustainable energy performances of green buildings to identify the influential parameters based upon the contemporary successful accomplishments of green building design implementations, and highlight the significant challenges related to the fundamental parameters of cost, maintenance, and operation.
Abstract: This study targets to elucidate the essence of sustainability in green building design implementations. In this regard, the study draws attention to the sustainable energy performances of green buildings to identify the influential parameters based upon the contemporary successful accomplishments. The study elaborates on the contemporary trends and applications of green building design and the respective impacts on sustainable developments. As a result, the analytical review confirms that the sustainable energy performance of green buildings has been transformed to a sensible and practical resolution to alleviate the CO2 emissions and diminish the building sector energy consumption. In addition, with view to the current challenges and barriers, the study concludes that; it is still crucial to identify and develop efficient energy solutions associated with green buildings for addressing the future energy demands. Likewise, the findings highlight that the sustainable energy performances associated with integrated technologies and renewable energy systems are still intertwined with significant challenges related to the fundamental parameters of cost, maintenance, and operation. In conclusion, the contemplations of the research findings are recommended to be taken into consideration by architects, engineers and developers for the development of future eco-cities with an explicit viewpoint towards developing greener and smarter built environments.

333 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework for assessing urban energy resilience, identifying planning and design criteria that can be used for assessing energy resilience and examining the relationship of these criteria with the underlying components of the conceptual framework.
Abstract: Between 60% and 80% of global energy is consumed in urban areas and given the projected increase in world׳s urban population, this share is expected to further increase in the future. Continuity of energy supply in cities is affected by climate change and a growing array of other threats such as cyber attacks, terrorism, technical deficiencies, and market volatility. Determined efforts, acknowledging the interactions and interlinkages between energy and other sectors, are needed to avoid adverse consequences of disruption in energy supply. Resilience thinking is an approach to management of socio-ecological systems that aims to develop an integrated framework for bringing together the (often) fragmented, diverse research on disaster risk management. The literature on urban resilience is immense and still growing. This paper reviews literature related to energy resilience to develop a conceptual framework for assessing urban energy resilience, identify planning and design criteria that can be used for assessing urban energy resilience, and examine the relationship of these criteria with the underlying components of the conceptual framework. In the conceptual framework, it is proposed that in order to be resilient, urban energy system needs to be capable of “planning and preparing for”, “absorbing”, “recovering from”, and “adapting” to any adverse events that may happen in the future. Integrating these four abilities into the system would enable it to continuously address “availability”, “accessibility”, “affordability”, and “acceptability” as the four sustainability-related dimensions of energy. The paper explains different resilience principles associated with these abilities and sustainability dimensions. Also, different planning and design criteria were extracted from the literature and categorized into five themes: infrastructure; resources; land use, urban geometry and morphology; governance; and socio-demographic aspects and human behavior. Examination of the relationship of these criteria with the underlying components of the conceptual framework highlighted the complexity and multi-faceted nature of energy resilience. Exploration of the relevance of the identified criteria to climate change mitigation and adaptation revealed that most of the identified criteria can provide both mitigation and adaptation benefits.

300 citations

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  • ...Taking a consensus-based approach is helpful in enhancing the transparency which is pointed out to be an essential characteristic of scoring and weighting systems (Moldan and Dahl, 2007; Singh et al., 2012). Another problem of weighting systems that causes ambiguity is that in some cases different values are assigned the same score and weighting. Vakili-Ardebili and Boussabaine (2007) and Baumgartner (2005) suggest that this issue can be partially solved by using fuzzy techniques in which each variable (criteria) carries a certain value and approximates are taken into account....

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