Sustainability assessments of urban systems /
Binder, Claudia R.,editor.
Wyss, Romano,editor.
Massaro, Emanuele,editor.
"The history of sustainability assessment goes back more than 20 years, with the first scientific articles devoted to the matter appearing in the mid-1990s, as laid out in Chapter 1. Starting off with approaches strongly influenced by the older tradition of environmental impact assessments, the authors of Chapter 1 show how the sustainability assessment community has slowly but steadily transcended these origins to include more and more social and economic aspects of sustainability over the years, thereby considerably broadening the conceptual basis of sustainability assessment practices"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The history of sustainability assessment goes back more than 20 years, with the first scientific articles devoted to the matter appearing in the mid-1990s, as laid out in Chapter 1. Starting off with approaches strongly influenced by the older tradition of environmental impact assessments, the authors of Chapter 1 show how the sustainability assessment community has slowly but steadily transcended these origins to include more and more social and economic aspects of sustainability over the years, thereby considerably broadening the conceptual basis of sustainability assessment practices"--
Sustainable development.
Cities and towns
Sustainable development
Sustainable development
Cities and towns
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development
Sustainable development
Nachhaltigkeit
Stadt
Beurteilung
Sustainability assessments of urban systems.