A parcel-scale assessment tool to measure sustainability through urban ecosystem components: The MUSIX model

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• 作者：Didem Dizdaroglu ; ^{dizdaroglu2012@gmail.com" class="auth_mail} ; Tan Yigitcanlar¹ ; ^{tan.yigitcanlar@qut.edu.au" class="auth_mail}
• 关键词：DPSIR ; driving force-pressure-state-impact-response ; FEEM ; fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei ; GCC ; Gold Coast City ; MUSIX ; micro-level urban-ecosystem sustainability index ; OECD ; Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development ; NDAI ; Neighbourhood Destination Accessibility Index
• 刊名：Ecological Indicators
• 出版年：June, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：41
• 期：Complete
• 页码：115-130
• 全文大小：5320 K

文摘

In recent years a number of urban sustainability assessment frameworks are developed to better inform policy formulation and decision-making processes. This paper introduces one of these attempts in developing a comprehensive assessment tool鈥攊.e., Micro-level Urban-ecosystem Sustainability IndeX (MUSIX). Being an indicator-based indexing model, MUSIX investigates the environmental impacts of land-uses on urban sustainability by measuring urban ecosystem components in local scale. The paper presents the methodology of MUSIX and demonstrates the performance of the model in a pilot test-bed鈥攊.e., in Gold Coast, Australia. The model provides useful insights on the sustainability performance of the test-bed area. The parcel-scale findings of the indicators are used to identify local problems considering six main issues of urban development鈥攊.e., hydrology; ecology; pollution; location; design, and; efficiency. The composite index score is used to propose betterment strategies to guide the development of local area plans in conjunction with the City's Planning Scheme. In overall, this study has shown that parcel-scale environmental data provides an overview of the local sustainability in urban areas as in the example of Gold Coast, which can also be used for setting environmental policy, objectives and targets.