1st Edition
Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2 The Environmental Assessment Methods
544 Pages
by
Routledge
544 Pages
by
Routledge
544 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set out in Volume 1 , Volume 2 examines how well the environmental assessment methods evaluate the ecological integrity of urban development and... Read more
1. Introduction Mark Deakin, Gordon Mitchell, Peter Nijkamp and Ron Vreeker Part 1: Environmental Assessment 2. Environmental Assessment Methods within the EU Guilio Mondini and Marco Valle Part 2: Systems Thinking-Based Approaches 3. The Multi-Modal Systems Thinking Approach to Sustainable Evaluation Peter Brandon and Patrizia Lombardi 4. The Human Sustainable City, Values, Approaches and Evaluative Tool Luigi Fusco Girard, Maria Cerrata, Pasquale De Toro and Fabiana Forte 5. The Role of Evaluation in Supporting Human Sustainable Development Peter Nijkamp 6. The Role of Modelling in Urban Sustainability Assessment Gordon Mitchell Part 3: Methods for Environmental Valuations 7. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Multi-Criteria Analysis Ron Vreeker, Peter Nijkamp and Giuseppe Munda 8. Contingent Valuation Method Paolo Nunes and Peter Nijkamp 9. The Hedonic Price Method Rene van der Kruk Part 4: Methods for Environmental, Economic and Social Assessments 4.1 Simple, Complex and Advanced Evaluations 10. Analytical Hierarchy Process Patrizia Lombardi 11. The Application and Development of Ecological Footprints Craig Simmons 12. Urban Spiders: A Comparative Framework for Evaluation and Scenario Analysis Tuzin Baycan Levent, Frank Bruinsma and Peter Nijkamp 13. The Flag Method Eveline van Leeuwen and Peter Nijkamp 14. Regime Analysis Ron Vreeker 4.2 Advanced Evaluations of Urban Land Use 15. The Assessment of Multi-Functional Land Use Caroline Rodenburg and Peter Nijkamp 16. The PROPOLIS Model for Assessing Urban Sustainability Klaus Spiekermann and Michael Wegener 4.3 Advanced Evaluations of Urban Land Use, Buildings and Estates 17. Sustainability Assessment of Building Design and Construction Steven Curwell and Pekka Houvila 18. Life Cycle Analysis of Buildings, Groups of Buildings and Urban Fragments Niklaus Kohler 4.4 Very Advanced Evaluations of Neighbourhoods, Districts and Cities 19. The AUSTIME Methodology: Quantifiable Sustainability Assessment Coupled with Multi-Agent Simulation Katherine A. Daniell, Bernadette A. Foley, Ashley B. Kingsborough, Holger R. Maier, David J. Malovka and Heath C. Somerville 20. H2QR: A Research and Demonstration Project for Assessing Sustainable Neighbourhood Development Andreas Blum 21. Assessing Sustainable Community Development Proposals Mark Deakin Part 5. Evaluating the Sustainability of Urban Development 22.The Assessment of Environmental Equity and Environmental Justice: Methodological Issues Gordon Mitchell 23. Participative and Inter-Active Evaluation: A Review of the Methodologies Andrea De Montis 24. Sustainable Urban Futures: From Models to Competing Pathways Simon Guy and Simon Marvin 25. Conclusions Mark Deakin, Gordon Mitchell, Peter Nijkamp and Ron Vreeker
Biography
Mark Deakin is Senior Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at the School of the Built Environment, Napier University. Gordon Mitchell is Lecturer at the School of Geography & Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds University. Peter Nijkamp is Professor in Regional and Urban Economics and Economic Geography at the Free University, Amsterdam. Ron Vreeker is Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Spatial Economics, Free University, Amsterdam.
