The dynamic index of urban environment quality as a tool for sustainable urban development

Economic Aspects Analysis in Calculation and Application of the Urban Environment Quality Index

“…The method for calculating virtually all integral indices in urban studies is based on the UN-proposed city prosperity index (CPI), which is described in detail in [11,13]. The method of calculating the UEQI in question also corresponds to this approach and is described in some detail in [19], where the UEQI values are given when this method was tested for the city of Kirov, Russia. It should be noted that in the UEQI composition we isolated 4 groups of indicators, namely: the first -"Safety and ecology of the urban environment", the second -"Architectural and landscape part of the urban environment and housing", the third -"Social environment and public leisure infrastructure environment", and the fourth -"Engineering and transport infrastructure of the urban environment" [19,20].…”

“…The method of calculating the UEQI in question also corresponds to this approach and is described in some detail in [19], where the UEQI values are given when this method was tested for the city of Kirov, Russia. It should be noted that in the UEQI composition we isolated 4 groups of indicators, namely: the first -"Safety and ecology of the urban environment", the second -"Architectural and landscape part of the urban environment and housing", the third -"Social environment and public leisure infrastructure environment", and the fourth -"Engineering and transport infrastructure of the urban environment" [19,20]. Each group includes same three subgroups: sufficiency indicators ("indicators of provision" according to the terminology used in [19]), economic indicators and sociological evaluation indicators, however, the retrospective data are available only on the indicators of the first two subgroups.…”

“…All sufficiency indicators and economic indicators were calculated primarily on the basis of official statistics, as for the economic indicators, the data were taken mainly from the accounts on the city budget expenditures for each year of the period. An important principle in UEQI calculation is the balance of groups and subgroups in the number and value of indicators, which implies a priori equilibrium of indicators' indices in subgroups, subgroups' indices in groups, and group indices when calculating the UEQI, which leads to an easy-to-do calculation of composite indices as arithmetic averages as implemented in [19,20], and in many international methods [10,[12][13].…”

“…Based on the approaches proposed in [11,13], the authors of this article developed a method for calculating the urban environment quality index (UEQI) for a municipality. The method was presented in [19], was tested for the city of Kirov (Russia). In this study, based on the city's UEQI dynamics calculated for 2012-2018, we consider possible relationships among individual indicators belonging to different subgroups of the same name groups, namely, the economic indicators subgroups and the urban environment quality sufficiency indicators subgroups.…”

“…In this study, based on the city's UEQI dynamics calculated for 2012-2018, we consider possible relationships among individual indicators belonging to different subgroups of the same name groups, namely, the economic indicators subgroups and the urban environment quality sufficiency indicators subgroups. In work [19], instead of the name "sufficiency indicators", which was introduced for the purposes of this study, is used the name "indicators of provision", and as an abbreviation for the integral index, DIUEQ is used instead of UEQI.…”