A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools

Sharifi, Ayyoob; Murayama, Akito

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2012.06.006

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“…The plotted results also evidence the balance of pillars of sustainability, which are the following, in order of coverage by tools: environmental, social, economic and institutional. In fact, the institutional aspect should be considered as the fourth pillar of sustainability, just as Sharifi and Murayama (2013) emphasised in their study. It is worth noting that it is treated as such in this work given the importance it deserves.…”

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“…To attain this, the structures of the indicators proposed in the literature were thoroughly reviewed. Sharifi and Murayama (2013) proposed the following categories: "resources and environment", "transportation", "social", "economic", "location and site selection", "pattern and design", "innovation", and subdivided some of them into several criteria. Luederitz et al (2013) set out 11 categories related to the principles of sustainability: "function", "structure", "context", "leakage effects", "socio-ecological system integrity", "livelihood sufficiency and opportunity", "intra-generational equity", "inter-generational equity", "resource maintenance and efficiency", "socio-ecological civility and democratic governance", and "precaution and adaptation".…”

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“…Sharifi and Murayama (2013) compared seven tools (LEED ND, BREEAM Communities, CASBEE UD, HQE2R, Ecocity, SCR and ECC) to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each one, made recommendations for improvements, proposed a set of themes and criteria that comprised all the indicators included in the above-mentioned tools, and determined the degree of emphasis to place on each theme. Later, Sharifi and Murayama (2014) carried out a crossevaluation of the LEED ND, CASBEE UD and BREEAM Communities in a case study whose goal was to compare results and propose changes to optimise these assessment tools.…”

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Some efforts to assess sustainability on the urban scale have been made and different tools for measuring the impact on and caused by cities have emerged. However, the sustainability concept varies from region to region, and indicators to measure it should be suitable for the context-specific conditions of the region under study. After doing a comprehensive review of the indicators included in 13 tools developed to assess urban sustainability of cities, this article proposes a new structure of indicators adapted to a Mediterranean city in Spain. The proposed structure is based on a two-level scheme that consists in 14 categories and 63 subcategories, which agglutinate urban sustainability indicators according to their purpose. This structure suggests a set of comprehensible qualitative and quantitative indicators that are easily applicable on neighbourhood or city scales. Given the similar features of Mediterranean countries in terms of environmental and socio-economic aspects, the proposed structure could be extrapolated to other countries with climatic and cultural similarities. Otherwise, the system is a useful tool in the decisionmaking process to help the different stakeholders involved in new urban developments and regeneration projects in existing neighbourhoods, such as developers, urban planners and public administrations.

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“…Although not specifically dedicated to the "Zero-energy" objectives, several neighbourhood sustainability assessment tools have recently been developed [42]. Examples of these NSA tools are, amongst others, the STAR Community Rating System (Sustainability Tools for Assessing and Rating Communities) [43] [47].…”

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A simplified framework to assess the feasibility of zero-energy at the neighbourhood/community scale

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a b s t r a c t Zero-energy buildings (ZEBs) are attracting increasing interest internationally in policies aiming at a more sustainably built environment, the scientific literature and practical applications. Although "zero energy" can be considered at different scales (e.g., community, city), the most common approach adopts only the perspective of the individual building. Moreover, the feasibility of this objective is not really addressed, especially as far as the retrofitting of the existing building stock is concerned. Therefore, this paper aims first to investigate the opportunity to extend the "zero-energy building" concept to the neighbourhood scale by taking into account two main challenges: (1) the impact of urban form on energy needs and the on-site production of renewable energy and (2) the impact of location on transportation energy consumption. It proposes a simplified framework and a calculation method that is then applied to two representative case studies (one urban neighbourhood and one rural neighbourhood) to investigate the feasibility of zero-energy in existing neighbourhoods. The main parameters that act upon the energy balance are identified. The potential of "energy mutualisation" at the neighbourhood scale is highlighted. This paper thereby shows the potentialities of an integrated approach linking transportation and building energy consumptions.

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“…There may be reputational benefits from being seen to use robust quality assurance systems, and the importance of 'brand recognition and flagship projects' in the global consultancy market, demonstrating the application of national and international standards and techniques is driving the increased use of CSAs (Cole and Jose Valdebenito, 2013;Spinks, 2015). While a CSA can be applied to a regeneration project, overwhelmingly the use of CSAs has been to provide for the appraisal of the sustainability of planning and design options for the development of new medium-and large-scale neighbourhoods Sharifi and Murayama, 2013).…”

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Matching a community assessment tool to the requirements of practice

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Over the last two decades, performance-based metrics have been applied in master planning as a means to estimate the impacts of large-scale development on the local and global environment. Community sustainability assessment has developed to provide a practical method for assessing the performance of a spatial master plan against an array of sustainability indicators. This paper considers the adequacy of such a tool to provide reliable information when and as required for decision-making in the planning process. It reviews Breeam (building research establishment environmental assessment method) Communities 2012 specifically examining whether this tool provides an analysis which is strategic, comprehensive and integrated. Breeam 2012 is found to be adequately comprehensive in the current operational context of the British planning system. The sustainability assessment model can usefully inform decision-making at the strategic 'stage gates' of master planning. However, the analytical methodology of the assessment model is inherently fractional. This complicates how a 'balanced' evaluation of the relative importance of sustainability issues is reached and agreed. It is suggested that a project culture of trans-disciplinary dialogue and explorative learning is required to promote the understanding and use of sustainability assessment practice in master planning.

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A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools

Cited by 502 publications

References 35 publications

Sustainability on the urban scale: Proposal of a structure of indicators for the Spanish context

Sustainability on the urban scale: Proposal of a structure of indicators for the Spanish context

A simplified framework to assess the feasibility of zero-energy at the neighbourhood/community scale

Matching a community assessment tool to the requirements of practice

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