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A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools
Ayyoob Sharifi,Akito Murayama +1 more
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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.read more
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Supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals: reconceptualising a ‘sustainable development assessment tool’ for the health and care system in England:
TL;DR: A reconceptualised self-assessment tool integrating the UN’s SDGs was developed and implemented online as the ‘Sustainable Development Assessment Tool’ (SDAT), which will support organisations to build their mandatory Sustainable Development Management Plans, as part of the National Public Health Outcomes Framework.
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COUNTING URBAN CARBON: Effective Modeling of Resource-Efficient Urban Design Decisions under Uncertain Conditions
TL;DR: This work presents the outline of a methodology that meets that requirement, exploiting the capacity for iteration, empirical evaluation, and collaborative refinement over time, and shows how this methodology is suitable for application in a new generation of decision support tools for urban design.
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A sustainability assessment model for industrial parks: A Choquet integral aggregation approach.
TL;DR: In this article , a double aggregation mechanism using the weighted arithmetic mean (WAM) and the Choquet integral (CI) to account for the interrelations between stakeholders involved in an industrial park is presented.
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Socio-Economic Indicators for the Ex-Post Evaluation of Brownfield Rehabilitation: A Case Study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the main objectives and benefits of a rehabilitation project implemented in Canada and propose an evaluation tool that integrates an ontology of the elements necessary for decision-making and local indicators related to the environmental and socioeconomic components with the goal of meeting the expectations of the local community.
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Urban Sustainability: Integrating Socioeconomic and Environmental Data for Multi-Objective Assessment
TL;DR: The integrated socioeconomic and land-use data mining-based multi-objective assessment (ISL-DM-MOA) as mentioned in this paper was developed to assess urban sustainability from regional perspectives using commonly enumerated socioeconomic statistics.
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