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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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What are the differences between sustainable and smart 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.
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Smart sustainable cities of the future: An extensive interdisciplinary literature review
Simon Elias Bibri,John Krogstie +1 more
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.
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A critical review of selected tools for assessing community resilience
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.
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Sustainable energy performances of green buildings: a review of current theories, implementations and challenges
Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini,Nur Dalilah Dahlan,Umberto Berardi,Ali GhaffarianHoseini,Nastaran Makaremi,Mahdiar GhaffarianHoseini +5 more
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.
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Principles and criteria for assessing urban energy resilience: A literature review
Ayyoob Sharifi,Yoshiki Yamagata +1 more
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.
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Sustainable or Status-quo: investigating sustainability assessment of residential estate development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the increasing use of sustainability rhetoric in the assessment of residential estate development is often tenuously connected to sustainability principles, and that more rigour is required in the adoption and application of sustainability principles in such assessment.
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Innovations towards sustainability : conditions and consequences
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a new approach to the modelling of sustainable economic systems, and propose a new Governance Portfolio for sustainable economic system development based on a transition management in the Electronics Industry Innovation System.
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Sustainable Communities in the UK
TL;DR: In the pursuit of sustainability, we must rethink built environments according to their impacts on natural and social environments as mentioned in this paper, and ultimately we must provide appealing, safe, and comfortable places for people to live.