Management of Environmental Quality: Volume 21 Issue 1

Applying service niche indicators to London's energy system

The use of cross‐cutting urban services (e.g. energy or water) has been proposed as a way of improving the performance of urban sustainability indicators. The purpose of this…

Energy profiling in the life‐cycle assessment of buildings

Building energy performance is a key element when assessing the sustainability, or otherwise, of the built environment. However, the prescriptive nature of current approaches to…

Strategic management plan evaluation of a river basin district

In strategic planning and management of environmental resources, traditional multicriteria analysis is usually adopted for evaluating alternative development scenarios against a…

“Measuring” sustainable living agendas

The purpose of this paper is to introduce an approach for dynamically assessing the transition from partition to integration within a multi‐disciplinary research/urban…

Evaluation of a project for the radical transformation of the Port of Genoa‐Italy: According to community impact evaluation (CIE)

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the evaluation of three innovative project options for the transformation/upgrading of the Port of Genoa‐Italy according to the…

Urban institutional and ecological footprint: A new urban metabolism assessment tool for planning sustainable urban ecosystems

This paper is part of a PhD research in urban metabolism assessment tools. Its purpose is to propose a new strategic urban metabolism assessment tool that can be integrated in the…

Enabling low‐carbon living in new UK housing developments

The purpose of this paper is to describe a tool (the Climate Challenge Tool) that allows house builders to calculate whole life carbon equivalent emissions and costs of various…

Whole life sustainability in the design of tourist resorts: A coastal alteration prediction model (CAP) using GIS and statistical tools

The purpose of this paper is to argue that it is possible to identify a number of physical design properties of plots that are associated with coastal alteration and to develop a…

Accounting for sustainability: Implementing a residential emissions reduction strategy using an approach that combines qualitative and quantitative “indicators” of sustainability

The purpose of this paper is to explain and demonstrate the importance and usefulness of mixing qualitative and quantitative approaches in participatory residential sustainability…

The Evolution of Water Resource Planning and Decision Making

Energy from the Desert: Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems: Socio-economic, Financial, Technical and Environmental Aspects

Diary

New report on geoengineering and the climate

Europe adopts new energy management standard

Guest editorial

Norwegians worry over climate change impacts

The Biofuel Delusion: The Fallacy of Large Scale Agro-Biofuels Production

Innovation, Markets and Sustainable Energy – The Challenge of Hydrogen and Fuel Cells

Sweden issues new pesticide labelling guidelines

Housing sector biggest source of pollution in 2007

Measuring the impact of research

Natural England initiative launched

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