How to Measure Progress Towards an Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable City? Reflections on Applying the Indicators of Sustainable Development Goal 11 in Germany and India

Koch, Florian; Ahmad, Sohail

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-59324-1_5

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“…There is an increasing amount of research dealing with aspects regarding the use of the SDGs in cities [3,16,38,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49]. Guides on localising the SDGs are starting to become available [50,51].…”

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Applying the SDGs to Cities: Business as Usual or a New Dawn?

2018

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With growing urbanisation the sustainability of cities has become increasingly important. Although cities have been using indicators for a long time it is only in the last decades that attempts have been made to collate indicators into sets that reflect the many different aspects required to assess the sustainability of a city. The aim of this paper is to review the evolution of indicators for monitoring sustainable urban development in order to understand how ‘new’ the indicators suggested by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are for cities and the challenges they may face in using them. The review reveals that previous indicator sets emphasised environmental sustainability, health and economic growth. It is also shown that indicator sets that pre-date the SDGs lacked dimensions such as gender equality and reduced inequalities. In all, the SDG indicators provide the possibility of a more balanced and integrated approach to urban sustainability monitoring. At the same time, further research is needed to understand how to adapt the SDGs, targets and indicators to specific urban contexts. Challenges of local application include their large number, their generic characteristics and the need to complement them with specific indicators that are more relevant at the city level.

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“…• Availability of reliable data in cities [40,[44][45][46]49]. The number of suggested SDG indicators makes it difficult meet the required demand on data.…”

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Applying the SDGs to Cities: Business as Usual or a New Dawn?

2018

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“…As no city can be truly sustainable in isolation, a set of targets and indicators (e.g., [51]) to be adopted by all cities around the world is necessary. [52].…”

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Life Cycle Insights for Creating Sustainable Cities

Assefa¹

2019

Sustainable Cities - Authenticity, Ambition and Dream

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The chapter focuses on the full life cycle of material and energy flows and uses in cities. Most of the impacts and opportunities in making cities more sustainable exist in how and what types of materials and energy source are used. The life cycle perspective of materials used in buildings and infrastructure systems is better addressed at the point of planning and design. The energy aspect touches both the efficiency of utilization and the impact intensity of the energy used to power and heat urban spaces and fuel transport systems. The type of sources of upstream supply of materials and energy is thus crucial. The commendable efficiency measures targeting the operation phase of urban systems should be accompanied by a consideration of the embodied impact of materials used and the end-of-life management of the materials following the end of their service life. The chapter ends with recommendations on best practices that potentially leverage on life cycle assessment results. It also covers the merits of employing the social life cycle perspective together with the environmental life cycle and economic life cycle in a life cycle sustainability assessment framework that seeks to define the triple bottom line space of lower unsustainability conditions.

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“…There is an increasing amount of research dealing with aspects regarding the use of the SDGs in cities [3,16,[37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]. Guides on localising the SDGs are starting to be available [48,49].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“… Availability of reliable data in cities [37,[42][43][44]47]. The number of suggested SDG indicators makes it difficult meet the required demand on data.…”

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confidence: 99%

Applying the SDGs to cities: business as usual or new dawn?

Zinkernagel¹,

Evans²,

Neij³

2018

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With growing urbanisation the sustainability of cities has become increasingly important. Although cities have been using indicators for a long time it is only in the last decades that attempts have been made to collate indicators into indicator sets with the aim of reflecting the many different aspects that need to be covered to assess the sustainability of a city. The aim of this paper is to review how indicators for monitoring sustainable urban development have evolved over time and compare them to the indicators suggested by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The review reveals that previous indicator sets emphasised environmental sustainability, health and economic growth. It is also shown that indicator sets that pre-date the SDGs lacked dimensions such as gender equality and reduced inequalities. In all, the SDG indicators provide the possibility of a more balanced and integrated approach to urban sustainability monitoring. At the same time, a methodology is needed to facilitate the adaptation process of localising the SDGS, targets and indicators. Challenges of local application include their large number, their generic characteristics and the need to complement them with specific indicators that are more relevant at the city level.

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How to Measure Progress Towards an Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable City? Reflections on Applying the Indicators of Sustainable Development Goal 11 in Germany and India

Cited by 36 publications

References 7 publications

Applying the SDGs to Cities: Business as Usual or a New Dawn?

Applying the SDGs to Cities: Business as Usual or a New Dawn?

Life Cycle Insights for Creating Sustainable Cities

Applying the SDGs to cities: business as usual or new dawn?

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