Urban Sustainability Indicators from a Regional Perspective: Lessons from the Montreal Metropolitan Area

Rajaonson, Juste; Tanguay, Georges A.

doi:10.1007/s11205-017-1823-x

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“…Most SUD frameworks follow hierarchical structures based on sustainability dimensions (Fig. 2, part A) that can be divided into two-level hierarchical structures (Rajaonson and Tanguay, 2019) and multi-level structures (Shen et al, 2011). In addition to a dimension and an indicator level, multi-level structures include one or more additional levels of classification, such as themes (Fig.…”

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Identifying barriers and potentials of integrated assessments of sustainable urban development and adaptation to rising sea levels

Eggert

Löwe

Arnbjerg‐Nielsen

2023

Ecological Indicators

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Identifying barriers and potentials of integrated assessments of sustainable urban development and adaptation to rising sea levels

Eggert

Löwe

Arnbjerg‐Nielsen

2023

Ecological Indicators

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“…Also, the application of these indicators needs to consider the cultural and lifestyle conditions of the study area. The indicators are therefore should be based on the complexity of society, and selecting key issues (Van der Maesen, 2013;Rajaonson & Tanguay, 2019;MacLean & Salama, 2019). Consequently, we had considered the nature of the study area before choosing the indicators.…”

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“…Alibegović and De Villa (2008) confirmed that the indicators specifying environmental, economic, governance, and management perspectives are a useful tool for the city's development towards sustainability. Urban quality indicators have been widely studied for many years and applied in developed urban areas such as the USA (Berenyi, 1972;Hancock, 2002), European countries (Davis & Fine-Davis, 1991;Alibegović & De Villa, 2008;Garau & Pavan, 2018;Rajaonson & Tanguay, 2019), some of the Asian countries such as Malaysia (Arif et al, 2015), Hongkong (Low et al, 2018); Pakistan (Ghalib et al, 2017) or China (Tong et al, 2006).…”

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“…However, this method has disadvantages, including the differences in the individual conception of quality of life, and too focusing on a prominent community issue such as increasing employment rates or improving the environment that ignoring or downplaying other issues (Greenwood, 2001). Another issue raised from setting indicators is whether they are useful for analyzing trends and contradictions in social circumstances worldwide (Van der Maesen, 2013;Rajaonson & Tanguay, 2019;MacLean & Salama, 2019).…”

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Application Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP) in Setting up Local Community Urban Environmental Quality of Life Index in a Developed Metropolitan Area in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Nguyen¹,

Nguyen²,

Doan³

et al. 2021

CUS

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Evaluation of the quality of the living environment, especially urban areas, is a broad category. It includes both the quality of the surrounding natural environment, the spatial perception, and the emotional linkage between humans and the surrounding environment. This study was conducted to determine the main environmental quality factors selected by people in the urban area of District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City. By surveying local residents and the environmental officers at the ward level People's Committees, the research applied the Analytic Hierarchical Process method to calculate the important level of the introduced environmental quality indicators. The results of the two groups of people were quite similar, and the highest scored indicator groups are the surrounding environmental quality including soil, water, and air. Landscape, odor, and solid waste factors were not appreciated by the residents as they are not the biggest issues at the site. The results of this study, therefore, are expected to be an important reference for policymakers and environmental managers in formulating plans and strategies for protection and improvement of the living environmental quality in the area.

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“…The goal of this empirically sound approach is to survey individuals and households regarding social processes and attitudes [28]. Social monitoring, established by Wolfgang Zapf in the 1970s in Germany, today also includes studies that measure sustainability [29][30][31][32]. A further research strand in this area is the indicator research in Seattle, which, on the basis of various sub-projects in the 1990s, aimed, among other things, to improve the quality of life in the neighborhoods [33][34][35][36].…”

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Enhancing Urban Sustainable Indicators in a German City—Towards Human-Centered Measurements for Sustainable Urban Planning

Kramer

Wagner

2020

World

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This contribution demonstrates how more human-centered measurements for sustainable urban planning can be created by enlarging the traditional set of urban sustainability indicators. In many municipal reports, sustainable indicators concentrate on environmental issues, by collecting data at an aggregated spatial and temporal level using quantitative methods. Our approach aims to expand and improve the currently dominant quantitative–statistical methods by including perception geographical data (subjective indicators following the social indicator approach), namely additional indicators at spatial and temporal levels. Including small-scale city district levels and a temporal differentiation produces more process assessments and a better representation of everyday life. Based on a survey we conducted at district levels in the city of Karlsruhe, we cover three sustainability dimensions (ecological, social, economic) and analyze (1) how citizens are mobile in a sustainable way (bike use) and (2) how they perceive and react to heat events in the city. We argue for taking people’s perception and the spatiality and temporality of their daily activities better into account when further developing urban sustainability indicators and when aiming for a sustainable, human-centered urban development.

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Urban Sustainability Indicators from a Regional Perspective: Lessons from the Montreal Metropolitan Area

Cited by 7 publications

References 33 publications

Identifying barriers and potentials of integrated assessments of sustainable urban development and adaptation to rising sea levels

Identifying barriers and potentials of integrated assessments of sustainable urban development and adaptation to rising sea levels

Application Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP) in Setting up Local Community Urban Environmental Quality of Life Index in a Developed Metropolitan Area in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Enhancing Urban Sustainable Indicators in a German City—Towards Human-Centered Measurements for Sustainable Urban Planning

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