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"Performance Metrics for Sustainable Cities provides an overview of measurement systems and tools to enable communities to self-assess and benchmark their progress along a continuum of smart, intelligent, and sustainable development. It begins by explaining the importance of measurement and evaluation for cities and smaller communities, as well as future factors that will need to be considered and embedded into planning processes. Across 14 chapters, the book describes existing evaluation mechanisms that are being used for government funding decisions, awards of recognition, and new measurement systems to assess what makes a city smarter and more sustainable, such as broader sustainable goal targets (UN SDGs), green cities, fabrication cities, and compassionate cities. It presents examples of metrics used for important sustainability and liveability concepts for cities such as how to measure trust, engagement, compassion, circular economy, and so forth. The book ends with reflections on the feasibility of a holistic system of measurement, and the implications of its implementation. This volume will be of great interest to students, researchers and professionals of urban sustainability, planning, smart cities and sustainable communities"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 An introduction to SDG 11 and conceptual frameworks for transition management -- 2 Insights for policy design to attain SDG 11: a critical review of the literature -- 3 Mysuru: the story of a clean city in India -- 4 How Ireland reduced its active landfills: a true tale of policy-driven change -- 5 Governance challenges of SDG 11: case studies from India, Japan and Brazil -- 6 Nudging cities towards renewable energy for sustainability: the case of Istanbul -- 7 Elevating consumer engagement in a circular economy: a framework for cities to plan the process -- 8 The inverted waste pyramid as a policy tool to unite SDG 11 and SDG 12 waste management targets -- 9 SDG 11: challenges and the way forward -- Index.

Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world's people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technology we use will all determine how sustainable our cities will be. Bridging the increasing divide between cross-disciplinary academic insights and the latest practical innovations, Resilient Sustainable Cities provides an integrated approach for long term future planning within the context of the city as a whole system.In the next 30 years cities will face their biggest challenges yet, as a result o

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Microsensing Networks for Sustainable Cities: Pollution as a Key Driving Factor -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Urban Megacities -- 1.3 Smart Cities -- 1.4 Air Pollutants -- 1.5 Air Pollution Sources -- 1.6 Water Pollutants -- 1.7 Water Pollution Sources -- 1.8 Air Pollution Monitoring -- 1.9 Water Pollution Monitoring -- 1.10 Air Quality Sensors -- 1.11 Water Quality Sensors -- 1.12 The Internet-of-Things -- 1.13 Wireless Sensing Networks -- 1.14 Energy-Harvesting -- 1.15 Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing -- 1.16 Ubiquitous Computing -- 1.17 Software Resources -- 1.18 Conclusion -- References -- 2 Population Growth in Developing Countries and Smart City Fundamentals. The Internet-of-Things and Wireless Sensor Networks -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Population Growth in Cities -- 2.3 Carrying Capacity -- 2.4 Variable Carrying Capacity -- 2.5 Developing Country Growth Statistics -- 2.6 Developed Country Growth Statistics -- 2.7 Smart Cities -- 2.8 Smart City Investments -- 2.9 Smart City Initiatives -- 2.10 Applications and Typical Environments -- 2.11 Internet-of-Things -- 2.12 Internet Access in Developing and Developed Nations -- 2.13 Addressable Networked Devices -- 2.14 IoT Market Share -- 2.15 IoT and Smart City Word Usage -- 2.16 Industrial IoT -- 2.17 SCADA -- 2.18 Wireless Sensor Networks -- 2.19 Layered WSN Nodes -- 2.20 WSN Topologies -- 2.21 WSN Modelling -- 2.22 WSN Reliability -- 2.23 Conclusion -- References -- 3 Modelling of Air and Water Pollution Sources -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Indoor Air Pollution -- 3.3 Outdoor Air Pollution -- 3.4 Ambient Air Pollution Modelling -- 3.5 Pollutant Concentration Conversion -- 3.6 Concentration in Altitude Variations -- 3.7 Unsaturated Adiabatic Lapse Rate -- 3.8 Saturated Adiabatic Lapse Rate -- 3.9 Pollution Dispersion---Screening Model.

chapter Introduction -- chapter About the Sustainable City Awards -- chapter Sustainable City Award Winners -- Sustainable Finance Category -- chapter About the City of London -- chapter GrowUp Urban Farms -- Award: Entrepreneurship (commercial) The Mission -- chapter Project Dirt -- Award: Entrepreneurship (commercial) The Mission -- chapter Rosh Engineering -- Award: Entrepreneurship (commercial) The Mission -- chapter PleaseCycle (now Yomp) -- Award: Entrepreneurship (social) The Mission -- chapter Core Arts -- Award: Greening the Third Sector The Mission -- chapter Abundance -- Award: Sustainable Finance The Mission -- chapter Co-oproduct CIC -- Award: Responsible Waste Management & Social Entrepreneurship The Mission -- chapter Nampak Plastics -- Award: Responsible Waste Management The Mission -- chapter Castle Climbing Centre -- Award: Responsible Waste Management/Sustainable Food The Mission -- chapter United House, NHP Leisure Developments and Mitsubishi Electric (joint award) -- Award: Sustainable Building The Mission -- chapter WestTrans Partnership -- Award: Sustainable Travel and Transport The Mission.

In the modern American city, who determines environmental policy? Cities have undergone fundamental change in both their economies and populations. In terms of political forces, our expectation is that across a range of cities, where nonprofit environmental groups have been included or incorporated into the local policymaking process, there is greater commitment to environmental protection, and more extensive adoption and implementation of local policies and programs designed to protect the environment. To test this idea, we draw on our own research that combines two original data sets. First, we have collected information on what programs and policies are in place in America's large cities. Second, for 50 large American cities, we have also surveyed top city administrators. We find that inclusion of environmental groups in city policymaking is strongly linked to city administrators' perceptions of city commitment to environmental protection. The number of local environmental protection policies and programs also demonstrates a strong relationship to inclusion of environmental groups in city policymaking. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright holder.]

In the modern American city, who determines environmental policy? Cities have undergone fundamental change in both their economies and populations. In terms of political forces, our expectation is that across a range of cities, where nonprofit environmental groups have been included or incorporated into the local policymaking process, there is greater commitment to environmental protection, and more extensive adoption and implementation of local policies and programs designed to protect the environment. To test this idea, we draw on our own research that combines two original data sets. First, we have collected information on what programs and policies are in place in America's large cities. Second, for 50 large American cities, we have also surveyed top city administrators. We find that inclusion of environmental groups in city policymaking is strongly linked to city administrators' perceptions of city commitment to environmental protection. The number of local environmental protection policies and programs also demonstrates a strong relationship to inclusion of environmental groups in city policymaking.