Environmental quality and sustainability in the province of Reggio Emilia (Italy): using multi-criteria analysis to assess and compare municipal performance

Ferrarini, Alessandro; Bodini, Antonio; Becchi, Massimo

doi:10.1006/jema.2001.0465

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“…Many works show the integration of environmental, social and economic spheres over larges study areas (e.g. Ferrarini et al 2001, Wiggering et al 2006. A risk we perceive in these studies is that the horizontal perspective (i.e.…”

Section: Landscape Ecology: Limits and Disillusionsmentioning

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From ecosystem ecology to landscape ecology: A progression calling for a well-founded research and appropriate disillusions

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Ferrarini

2008

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I n this paper, 1) a delineation of main theoretical, methodological and applicative issues of landscape ecology, 2) a comparison between landscape and ecosystem ecology, 3) a critical overview of actual limits of landscape ecology, are depicted. We conclude that: a) from a theoretical viewpoint, ecosystem and landscape ecology differ since they deal with ecological topics having very different spatial and temporal scales, b) from a practical standpoint, they deal with dissimilar purposes emerging both from unlike research scales and different approaches, as the interest of landscape ecology is mainly focused on the whole ecological mosaic rather than on single components, in this view assuming an "horizontal" ecological perspective, c) transdisciplinarity is still a work in progress in landscape ecology, d) several research purposes in landscape ecology are far from being reached, e) a bridge lacks between the "horizontal" perspective adopted from landscape ecology and the "vertical" approach distinctive of ecosystem ecology, therefore, they actually behave as detached disciplines. However, in our vision, landscape ecology contains the seeds for becoming a self-contained scientific discipline as well as the interface among the distinct sectors of environmental research and planning.

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Section: Landscape Ecology: Limits and Disillusionsmentioning

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From ecosystem ecology to landscape ecology: A progression calling for a well-founded research and appropriate disillusions

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2008

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“…The authors used 25 indicators, focusing on those aspects for which sufficient data were available for all 45 municipalities of the province selected, using a Multiple Criteria. To obtain an index, quantitative weights were assigned based on the relative importance of the criteria using a panel of experts who were asked to rank the criteria in order of importance from 1 to 7 [27].…”

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A New Sustainability City Index Based on Intellectual Capital Approach

2017

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Urban sustainability is a key factor that must be considered at the local level, however, there are few studies that consider sustainability using the triple bottom line approach and apply it to a large number of cities. In this paper, we develop a sustainability city index based on the triple bottom line using an intellectual capital approach that attempts to solve the negative aspects identified in the main indices proposed in the existing literature, such as the use of: subjective weightings, an arithmetic average or index that is not comparable. Here, we have used information available in the Urban Audit database for 2009. The results for 158 cities in 24 European countries show that the cities with the best positions are in the northern European countries. German cities occupied the best positions in the three dimensions of sustainability, albeit with a slightly worse performance in the social dimension. Moreover, the proposal index is consistent, without redundancy among the variables considered in the three dimensions.

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“…The aforementioned methods, which are usually utilized comprehensively [32], will be used to conduct determination and crossing analyses on study targets [33]. These achievements and methods provide the reference and practical application value for this article.…”

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Trends and Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Sustainability in Eastern Anhui Province, China

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This study analyzes and evaluates the status and long-term trend of regional economic sustainability in eastern Anhui Province, China. Based on the triangle model and the definition of economic sustainable development, this study evaluates the interrelationship among regional economic development, resource-energy consumption, environmental pollution, and ecological performance. The sustainable and comprehensive utilization situation in the study region from 1975-2012 is examined. The results show that in 2012, the comprehensive development in the study region had a general status in terms of sustainability. The sustainable development trend of the seven administrative subunits inside the region had a weak and general status in terms of sustainability, while the status of sustainability in the southeastern part of the region was better than that in the northwest. During the period from 1975-1998, the study region's comprehensive development presented a trend of general sustainability. In the period from 1998-2012, the region experienced a trend of very strong sustainability in its development. These statuses and trends have a certain relationship with the study region's strong economic development and environmental protection over the past 37 years. The triangle method, as an intuitive platform for illustrating sustainability status and trends in economic development, seems to hold promise as an analytical management tool given its simplicity, ease of use, and flexibility.

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Environmental quality and sustainability in the province of Reggio Emilia (Italy): using multi-criteria analysis to assess and compare municipal performance

Cited by 73 publications

References 17 publications

From ecosystem ecology to landscape ecology: A progression calling for a well-founded research and appropriate disillusions

From ecosystem ecology to landscape ecology: A progression calling for a well-founded research and appropriate disillusions

A New Sustainability City Index Based on Intellectual Capital Approach

Trends and Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Sustainability in Eastern Anhui Province, China

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