An overview of sustainability assessment methodologies

By R. Singh, H. Murty, Saurabh Gupta, A. Dikshit. 2009

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Choosing the most appropriate sustainability assessment tool (2012, background): “After almost 25 years of debate there is no shortage of sustainability assessment tools (Bebbington et al., 2007; Gasparatos et al., 2008; Ness et al., 2007; Singh et al., 2009).”
Towards prosperous sustainable cities: A multiscalar urban sustainability assessment approach (2015, background): “2 growing sustainability knowledge base—are commonly employed in sustainability assessment models (Singh et al., 2009).”
Using eco-efficiency as an indicator for sustainable urban development: A case study of Chinese provincial capital cities (2014, methodology): “The hird class uses models to calculate eco-efficiency; some of the key ethods of aggregation employed are principal components analsis (Jollands et al., 2004), factor analysis (Singh et al., 2012) and ositive matrix factorisation (Wu et al., 2012).”
Measuring Social Sustainability: A Community-Centred Approach (2012, background): “2006); and between economic, ecological and holistic or indexical approaches towards measurement (Bramley and Power 2009; Singh et al. 2009).”
Applying the SDGs to Cities: Business as Usual or a New Dawn? (2018, background): “These frameworks are meant to help with structuring the diversity of activities and interactions and thus make it possible to identify and prioritise how to monitor sustainable development [22,33,59,60] and thereby aid the decision-making process of selecting indicators [61].”
Review of sustainability indices and indicators: Towards a new City Sustainability Index (CSI) (2012, background): “Other attributes of sustainability measures to be considered include validity, reliability, comparability, simplicity, and data availability (Singh et al., 2009).”
Utilisation of feed resources in production of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Norway (2015, background): “Any method of food production can be evaluated in terms of the influence it has on the environment and how much natural resources are consumed in the process (Bartley et al., 2007; Kates et al., 2001; Singh et al., 2009).”
Proposal of a Sustainable Circular Index for Manufacturing Companies (2017, methodology): “[27] suggests that composite indices should remain relatively simple in terms of their construction and interpretation.”
Analysis of the potentials of multi criteria decision analysis methods to conduct sustainability assessment (2014, background): “cost-benefit analysis, multi criteria decision analysis) (Singh et al., 2009; Zamagni et al., 2009).”
A system of systems approach to energy sustainability assessment: Are all renewables really green? (2015, background): “…the assessment of the results and their robustness. c) Lack of a reliable aggregating index: In fact, most studies have investigated only one aspect of sustainability in attempt to suggest a sustainability index, which often leads to ineffective sustainability measures (Singh et al., 2009, 2012).”
Sustainable Energy Development Index: A multi-dimensional indicator for measuring sustainable energy development (2015, background): “[34] assert that most indicators focus on one aspect of sustainability and do not adopt an integrated approach.”
Metrics for optimising the multi-dimensional value of resources recovered from waste in a circular economy: A critical review (2017, background): “Frameworks, methods and tools commonly used to support decision-makers when evaluating SWM and/or RRfW processes and systems include, amongst others, the LCA, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) (Begum et al., 2006; Clift et al., 2000; da Cruz et al., 2014; Djukic et al., 2016; Varouchakis et al., 2016; Wan”