Indicators for Urban Sustainability

This lecture covers the importance of indicators in assessing urban sustainability, focusing on understanding what indicators are, how to select the most suitable ones, and the case of MONET and 'Cercle Indicateurs' in Switzerland. It delves into the challenges of selecting indicators, the centrality of cities in the global sustainability challenge, and the key lessons learned from various measurement initiatives. The lecture emphasizes the need for clear definitions, reference points, and labels for indicators, as well as the anchoring of indicators in a conceptual framework. It also discusses the process of selecting indicators, the criteria involved, and the significance of context-specificity and parsimony in indicator selection.