Benchmarking urban performance against absolute measures of sustainability – A review

Goodwin, Kylie; Wiedmann, Thomas; Chen, Guangwu; Teh, Soo Huey

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128020

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Section: City Sustainabilitymentioning

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“…Cities are important entities because people's social and economic activities are increasingly organized around them (UN, 2015), making them key actors in governmental efforts (Attinger, 2011) to comply with international agreements on sustainability (Goodwin et al, 2021). In this context, a growing urban population makes it relevant to take into account their impacts on the environment, the economy, and society (Mori & Yamashita, 2015).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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City reputation and the role of sustainability in cities

Pérez‐Cornejo

Gutiérrez

Puente

2022

Sustainable Development

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City reputation is a valuable intangible asset that boosts the attractiveness of a city in terms of resources, events, tourism, or as a place of residence. Since city sustainability is understood as the framework of a city's economic activities conducted within the carrying capacity of the local environment to the benefit of the local population, it may help to satisfy city stakeholders' expectations over time; in other words, to enhance city reputation. Our results from Tobit analyses, based on an international sample of 62 cities between 2015 and 2018, confirm that city sustainability is a determinant of city reputation. Specifically, this study shows that the level of environmental, social, and economic sustainability affects positively city reputation. Our results are of interest to local authorities, as they indicate the relevance of efforts to consolidate city sustainability in order to build a good city reputation.

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Section: City Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

City reputation and the role of sustainability in cities

Pérez‐Cornejo

Gutiérrez

Puente

2022

Sustainable Development

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“…On the other hand, urban economies have negative impacts on the local environment (Huang et al, 2015; Liu et al, 2014; Wu et al, 2014) and cause variations in urban climate due to disturbances linked to biodiversity, hydrological cycles, and natural resources (Liu et al, 2014). Cities dominate consumption, production, and the generation of waste (Campos et al, 2009) which has increased the interest of researchers and policymakers in sustainable urban development (Goodwin et al, 2021). Sustainable urban systems are an emerging concept (Batty, 2018) which has become a new theme in comparison to ecosystem sustainability (Corredor‐Ochoa et al, 2020).…”

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Valuation of socio‐economic indicators for progressing urban sustainability under distinctive rubrics

Ghalib

Mirza

Raza

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The key objective of the study is to collect the factors which play an important role in the city's sustainability and implementation advantages for the development of cities in future. This article develops an urban sustainability assessment framework by giving GIS‐based decision support tools to guide cities toward sustainability. Multicriteria analysis was used as the decision support system and provides an analytical framework for assessing differences in the level of criteria and ranking decision options. It has the capability for assessment of urban sustainability because it brings sustainability criteria from three pillars of sustainability, environmental, social, and economic, which provide an integrated approach for assessment of urban sustainability. The GIS‐based multicriteria analysis serves as a sustainability support system that maps urban sustainability and the underlying environmental, social, and economic conditions. The results from the study show that the four cities ‐ Faisalabad, Lahore, Gujranwala, and Multan ‐ have better economic conditions while only Lahore and Faisalabad showed social progress and the remaining cities showed less suitability. For the environmental index, none of the cities attained high suitability. Lahore, Faisalabad, and Rawalpindi showed better conditions than Gujranwala and Multan. It is demonstrated that Punjab cities have made progress in economic condition and improvement in social condition but have poor environmental condition. In the study, the environmental dimension has indicators which have more impact on the urban sustainability. Environmental degradation is observed in all selected regions and not a single region showed suitability toward its environmental condition and due to this none of the cities gained suitable scores for urban sustainability. Consequently, urban sustainability is a multidimensional and dynamic process that needs regular evaluation and monitoring. Thus, this article contends that the tools help to highlight and emphasize those areas that need guidance in achieving urban sustainability.

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Theoretical Foundations of Total Socioenvironmental System (TSES)

Xie

2023

Total Socioenvironmental Systems

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Benchmarking urban performance against absolute measures of sustainability – A review

Cited by 8 publications

References 118 publications

City reputation and the role of sustainability in cities

City reputation and the role of sustainability in cities

Valuation of socio‐economic indicators for progressing urban sustainability under distinctive rubrics

Theoretical Foundations of Total Socioenvironmental System (TSES)

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