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A systems perspective for residential preferences and dwellings: housing functions and their role in Swiss residential mobility

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Anna Pagani

Worldwide, there is an urgent imperative to provide a housing supply that is environmentally sustainable as well as acceptable and desirable for its users. A holistic and integrative understanding of the relationship between households’ residential prefere ...

2021

13 - Indicators for Assessing the Sustainability of Cities

Anne Frédérique Cécile Noémi Bösch

Sustainability assessment initiatives at the local level have been increasing in number since the mid-1990s and are now plentiful. The definitions of sustainable development used in sustainability assessment instruments, however, vary widely. This chapter ...

Cambridge University Press2020

How Values Play into Sustainability Assessments: Challenges and a Possible Way Forward

Franziska Meinherz, Livia Bianca Fritz

Any sustainability assessment uses some notion of sustainability as a reference. It is increasingly acknowledged that sustainability is a contested concept and that its different definitions are rooted in different values. Accordingly, researchers have sta ...

Cambridge University Press2020

The 2030 Agenda to assess the sustainability of campus operations: EPFL as a case study

Léa Barbey

The EPFL sustainability unit was created in 2007 to coordinate, support and propose sustainable development actions on the campus. Its 2018-2020 strategy introduced a project called CORE SUSTAINABILITY, aiming at the progressive integration of sustainabili ...

2020

Sustainability Assessment of Urban Systems

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Romano Tobias Wyss, Emanuele Massaro

Our world is becoming more and more urban. Already, about 50% of the population lives in cities posing new challenges for sustainable development. What does sustainability mean in the context of living in a city? This book provides guidelines for sustainab ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Indicators for urban sustainability: Key lessons from a systematic analysis of 67 measurement initiatives

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Albert Merino, Valeria Superti, Pekka Jaakko Halla

Today, the centrality of cities in the global sustainability challenge is widely acknowledged, and numerous initiatives have been developed worldwide for monitoring and comparing the sustainability performance of urban areas. However, the escalating abunda ...

2020

Assessing Urban Sustainability through Participatory Multi-Criteria Approaches (PMCAs): An Updated Comparative Analysis

Albert Merino

This chapter presents a comparative analysis of four Participatory Multi-Criteria Approaches (PMCAs) usually applied in sustainability assessments (SMCE, MCM, 3-SPM and INTEGRAAL). Such approaches are presented in detail and subsequently compared to each o ...

Cambridge University Press2020

Forming groups of students best suited to work together on a sustainability issue

Philippe Thalmann, Adam Robert Swietek

We show how groups of three students can be formed to with a view to maximizing the interest in a shared topic and the diversity of views and beliefs regarding sustainability and measures that can or should be taken. ...

2020

Sustainability as a Competitive Tool for the Brave? Or for the Best? A Behavioral Theory Perspective

Lorenzo Massa

Who invests in sustainability as a strategic choice? We adopt a behavioral theory perspective to explain the heterogeneity of sustainability-driven investments. Building on problemistic search and organizational inertia arguments, and contrary to resource- ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2020

The Sustainable Mobily in Diffuse Urban Areas in the Digital Era

Qinyi Zhang

The majority of Europe’s urbanity is constituted of diffuse urban areas. Most of the settlements in those areas will continue to exist by 2050. However, those areas are often overlooked in the current reflection on sustainability. Can new digital technolog ...

2020

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