Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 21 Issue 1
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An International JournalTable of contents - Special Issue from the “Second International Conference on Whole Life Urban Sustainability and its Assessment”
Applying service niche indicators to London's energy system
James KeirsteadThe use of cross‐cutting urban services (e.g. energy or water) has been proposed as a way of improving the performance of urban sustainability indicators. The purpose of this…
Energy profiling in the life‐cycle assessment of buildings
Tracey Crosbie, Nashwan Dawood, John DeanBuilding energy performance is a key element when assessing the sustainability, or otherwise, of the built environment. However, the prescriptive nature of current approaches to…
Strategic management plan evaluation of a river basin district
Patrizia LombardiIn strategic planning and management of environmental resources, traditional multicriteria analysis is usually adopted for evaluating alternative development scenarios against a…
“Measuring” sustainable living agendas
Louise Hurley, Richard Ashley, Susan Molyneux‐Hodgson, Peter Moug, Nicki SchiesselThe purpose of this paper is to introduce an approach for dynamically assessing the transition from partition to integration within a multi‐disciplinary research/urban…
Evaluation of a project for the radical transformation of the Port of Genoa‐Italy: According to community impact evaluation (CIE)
Isabella M. Lami, Beatrice BeccutiThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate the evaluation of three innovative project options for the transformation/upgrading of the Port of Genoa‐Italy according to the…
Urban institutional and ecological footprint: A new urban metabolism assessment tool for planning sustainable urban ecosystems
Karima Dakhia, Ewa Berezowska‐AzzagThis paper is part of a PhD research in urban metabolism assessment tools. Its purpose is to propose a new strategic urban metabolism assessment tool that can be integrated in the…
Enabling low‐carbon living in new UK housing developments
Steffie Broer, Helena TitheridgeThe purpose of this paper is to describe a tool (the Climate Challenge Tool) that allows house builders to calculate whole life carbon equivalent emissions and costs of various…
Whole life sustainability in the design of tourist resorts: A coastal alteration prediction model (CAP) using GIS and statistical tools
Ayman Ismail, Husam KhalilThe purpose of this paper is to argue that it is possible to identify a number of physical design properties of plots that are associated with coastal alteration and to develop a…
Accounting for sustainability: Implementing a residential emissions reduction strategy using an approach that combines qualitative and quantitative “indicators” of sustainability
Andy ScerriThe purpose of this paper is to explain and demonstrate the importance and usefulness of mixing qualitative and quantitative approaches in participatory residential sustainability…
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1477-7835e-ISSN:
1758-6119ISSN-L:
1477-7835Renamed from:
Environmental Management and HealthOnline date, start – end:
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- Prof Malin Song