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A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools

Ayyoob Sharifi, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2013 - 
- Vol. 38, Iss: 38, pp 73-87
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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.
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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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Construction of residential quality assessment system using factor analysis method based on residents’ satisfaction survey: Case study of Beijing, China

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper surveyed the residential communities at four chronological intervals and proposed an evaluation system that includes 75 indices to conduct research on and analyze on a total of 60 households in 48 communities using an offline survey; the total of 6834 online questionnaires obtained in the study, and the factor analysis method was used to analyze the residential evaluation system.
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Our common future

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An overview of sustainability assessment methodologies

TL;DR: Sustainability indicators and composite index are increasingly recognized as a useful tool for policy making and public communication in conveying information on countries and corporate performance in fields such as environment, economy, society, or technological improvement as mentioned in this paper.
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TL;DR: In this article, simple methods for impact identification matrices, networks and checklists are presented for describing the affected environment, and a detailed description of the environmental setting is given, as well as several indicators and indicators for describing affected environments.
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Case study research: a multi‐faceted research approach for IS

TL;DR: An overview of the various uses of case studyResearch in the information systems field is provided by describing the different ways in which case study research can be used, using examples from published IS literature for illustration, and providing references to other method papers for more detailed discussion of each alternative.
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