Evaluating sustainable development in the built environment /
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| Author / Creator: | Brandon, P. S. (Peter S.) author |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Chichester, West Sussex ; Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell, c2011. |
| Description: | xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8211820 |
Table of Contents:
- About the Authors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Setting the Context for Evaluating Sustainable Development
- The environmental perspective
- The international policy debates
- Extension of the debate
- The impact of the built environment
- The current response of the built environment community
- Sustainability: a definition
- Seeking a shared set of values
- Striving for a common framework and classification system
- The characteristics of assessment and measurement for sustainable development
- Management and intervention for sustainable development
- Implementing management decisions
- Summary
- 2. Time and Sustainability
- Innovation and stability
- Perceptions of sustainable development
- Critical failure points
- Time in evaluation
- Future aversion
- Clever or wise?
- Practical assessment of 'time'
- The luxury of the 'time' horizon
- 3. Approaches to Evaluation
- The Natural Step
- The concept of community capital
- The ecological footprint
- Monetary (capital) approach
- The driving force-state-response model
- Issues or theme-based frameworks
- Accounting frameworks
- Frameworks of assessment methods' tool kits
- Summary and conclusions
- 4. Indicators and Measures
- Why evaluate?
- Traditional versus sustainable development indicators
- Generic and specific questions
- International indicators
- Aggregated indicators
- Discussion
- Summary
- 5. Assessment Methods
- A directory of assessment methods
- An outline summary of the main assessment methods, tools and procedures in use
- Summary and conclusions
- 6. A Proposed Framework for Evaluating Sustainable Development
- The need for a holistic and integrated framework
- The theoretical underpinning of the framework
- The built environment explained by the modalities
- The 15 modalities for understanding sustainable development in the built environment
- Development of the multi-modal framework for decision-making
- Key questions for examining sustainable development within each modality
- Synthesis of results
- Summary
- 7. The Framework as a Structuring Tool: Case Studies
- Case study 1: selection of a municipal waste treatment system
- Case study 2: evaluation of sustainable redevelopment scenarios for an urban area
- Case study 3: 'multi-stakeholder' urban regeneration decision-making
- Case study 4: social reporting of Modena City strategic plan
- Summary and conclusion
- 8. Towards Management Systems and Protocols
- Who manages?
- The planning framework
- Management in a learning organisation
- Soft system methodology
- Wicked problems
- Process protocols
- A possible approach
- The Vancouver study
- The conclusions of the Vancouver study
- Follow through on the Vancouver study
- Resilience
- 9. Education and Research
- A research agenda
- In conclusion
- Appendix A. The Philosophy of the 'Cosmonomic Idea of Reality'
- References
- Websites
- Bibliography
- Index
