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| About the Authors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Setting the Context for Evaluating Sustainable Development | |
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| The environmental perspective | |
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| The international policy debates | |
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| Extension of the debate | |
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| The impact of the built environment | |
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| The current response of the built environment community | |
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| Sustainability: a definition | |
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| Seeking a shared set of values | |
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| Striving for a common framework and classification system | |
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| The characteristics of assessment and measurement for sustainable development | |
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| Management and intervention for sustainable development | |
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| Implementing management decisions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Time and Sustainability | |
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| Innovation and stability | |
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| Perceptions of sustainable development | |
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| Critical failure points | |
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| Time in evaluation | |
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| Future aversion | |
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| Clever or wise? | |
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| Practical assessment of 'time' | |
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| The luxury of the 'time' horizon | |
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| Approaches to Evaluation | |
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| The Natural Step | |
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| The concept of community capital | |
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| The ecological footprint | |
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| Monetary (capital) approach | |
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| The driving force-state-response model | |
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| Issues or theme-based frameworks | |
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| Accounting frameworks | |
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| Frameworks of assessment methods' tool kits | |
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| Summary and conclusions | |
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| Indicators and Measures | |
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| Why evaluate? | |
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| Traditional versus sustainable development indicators | |
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| Generic and specific questions | |
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| International indicators | |
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| Aggregated indicators | |
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| Discussion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Assessment Methods | |
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| A directory of assessment methods | |
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| An outline summary of the main assessment methods, tools and procedures in use | |
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| Summary and conclusions | |
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| A Proposed Framework for Evaluating Sustainable Development | |
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| The need for a holistic and integrated framework | |
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| The theoretical underpinning of the framework | |
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| The built environment explained by the modalities | |
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| The 15 modalities for understanding sustainable development in the built environment | |
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| Development of the multi-modal framework for decision-making | |
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| Key questions for examining sustainable development within each modality | |
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| Synthesis of results | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Framework as a Structuring Tool: Case Studies | |
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| Case study 1: selection of a municipal waste treatment system | |
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| Case study 2: evaluation of sustainable redevelopment scenarios for an urban area | |
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| Case study 3: 'multi-stakeholder' urban regeneration decision-making | |
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| Case study 4: social reporting of Modena City strategic plan | |
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| Summary and conclusion | |
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| Towards Management Systems and Protocols | |
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| Who manages? | |
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| The planning framework | |
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| Management in a learning organisation | |
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| Soft system methodology | |
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| Wicked problems | |
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| Process protocols | |
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| A possible approach | |
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| The Vancouver study | |
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| The conclusions of the Vancouver study | |
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| Follow through on the Vancouver study | |
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| Resilience | |
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| Education and Research | |
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| A research agenda | |
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| In conclusion | |
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| The Philosophy of the 'Cosmonomic Idea of Reality' | |
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| References | |
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| Websites | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |