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7 - Sustainability Assessment: Integrative Concept, Methodology, and Examples

from Part II - Integrative Approaches for Sustainability Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2020

By
Volker Stelzer  and
Jürgen Kopfmüller
Edited by
Claudia R. Binder ,
Romano Wyss  and
Emanuele Massaro
Claudia R. Binder
Affiliation:
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Romano Wyss
Affiliation:
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Emanuele Massaro
Affiliation:
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Summary

The Integrative Concept of Sustainable Development (ICoS) was developed through an intensive process in order to operationalise the guiding rules of sustainable development in an interdisciplinary team. Through its three general sustainability goals and 25 sustainability rules, ICoS establishes that indicators are part of a step-wise, systematic, and consistent construction that links theoretical abstraction to deliberative action: the political and societal practice of sustainable development (Barton & Kopfmüller, 2012, p. 84). The application of the concept is presented through two examples: a completed project in Santiago de Chile, and a project currently being developed, which will enable the calculation of regional sustainable energy balances.

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Sustainability Solution Spaceurban sustainabilityindicatorsustainability assessmentparticipatoryexperttrade-offssystemicnormative
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Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems , pp. 161 - 180
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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