Assessing the sustainability dimension at local scale: Case study of Spanish cities
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Título: | Assessing the sustainability dimension at local scale: Case study of Spanish cities |
Autor/a: | González García, Sara Andrade Fernández, Elena María Moreira Vilar, María Teresa Feijoo Costa, Gumersindo Rama Caamaño, Manuel |
Centro/Departamento: | Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Enxeñaría Química Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Psicoloxía Social, Básica e Metodoloxía |
Palabras chave: | Spanish cities | Composite indicator | Spain | Sustainable city | Sustainability indicators | Three-letters code | |
Data: | 2020 |
Editor: | Elsevier |
Cita bibliográfica: | Ecological Indicators, Volume 117, October 2020, 106687 |
Resumo: | Nowadays, cities host most of the world population. As a result of human activities within their boundaries, most greenhouse gases emissions, natural resources consumption and waste generation are concentrated in urban areas. For these reasons, studies focusing on assessing the sustainability of cities have increased in recent decades. Bearing in mind the three pillars of sustainability (social, economic and environmental), this study aims to evaluate the level of sustainability of 31 representative Spanish cities through multiple sustainability indicators, which have been aggregated into a composite sustainability indicator that is reported by a three-letter code. Thus, each pillar of sustainability is represented by a letter A, B or C in the three-letter code, so that the letter A corresponds to the best rate and C to the worst. Within the geographical and socio-demographic framework of Spain, the results show considerable differences between the cities in the south and the north of the country. Accordingly, most of the cities with the best sustainability scores according to the award of at least two A in the three-letters code are located in the north of the country. Examples of this category are Pamplona and L’Hospitalet de Llobregat (both ranked as AAA). Cities such as Murcia, Gijon, Badajoz and Huelva obtained the worst ranking with the CCC rating. For this group of cities, actions for the improvement of sustainability have been identified |
Versión do editor: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106687 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24304 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106687 |
ISSN: | 1470-160X |
Dereitos: | © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional |
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