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T1 Urban sustainability deficits: The urban non-sustainability index (UNSI) as a tool for urban policy
A1 Raedo Santos, Rubén
K1 Environmental indicators
K1 Sustainability
K1 Sustainable development
K1 Desarrollo sostenible
K1 Ciudades - Aspecto del medio ambiente
K1 Urban planning
K1 Urban policy
K1 6201.03 Urbanismo
AB Urban sustainability has been revealed as one of the key elements in achieving global sustainability. There is a wide range of indicators in this field; however, sustainability indicators have not been exempt from criticism, in both their formal aspects and practical usefulness. If measuring sustainability is “measuring the immeasurable”, then the objective of this article is to propose a composite indicator that evaluates only the deficits of sustainability or, which is the same thing, the unsustainability of cities. This focus has the advantage of showing up the particular deficiencies and thus the priorities that each city must attend to. For this purpose, only unsustainability, defined as the distance to a sustainability target, was considered. Aggregation was carried out through generalized means, which lead to a proper balance between compensatory and non-compensatory aggregation. The results emerging from the application of our methodology to a sample of fifty different cities suggest that all cities should attend to some aspect concerning sustainability, and that no city is sustainable, but only less unsustainable, showing both significant differences between cities in terms of the degree of unsustainability and a common underlying structure of unsustainability in which the environmental dimension contributes the most.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/59076
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/59076
LA eng
NO Sustainability, 2021, Vol. 13, Nº. 22, 12395
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 12-jul-2024