TY - JOUR
T1 - Nationwide assessment of city performance based on environmental efficiency
AU - Kawakubo, Shun
AU - Ikaga, Toshiharu
AU - Murakam, Shuzo
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellows. Furthermore, the authors have received valuable advices from the Committee for the Development of an Environmental Performance Assessment Tool for Cities (Chair: Shuzo Murakami) and would like to express their sincere gratitude to all persons involved in the study.
PY - 2011/12
Y1 - 2011/12
N2 - Cities must improve their quality without an increase, or ideally with a decrease, in the amount of environmental load to become more sustainable. In order to monitor city’s progress towards sustainable development goals, a Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (CASBEE) tool, named CASBEE-City has been developed. All cities in Japan are assessed from the following two aspects: environmental load (L) on the external environment and quality (Q), which represents the citizens’ quality of life inside the city. Built environment efficiency (BEE = Q/L) is then calculated for the comprehensive assessment of each city. A high BEE value indicates that the city has excellent environmental efficiency. The assessment results are visually displayed on the map by using a geographic information system so that citizens, local government officers, and all other stakeholders can easily understand the actual status of their city in comparison with other cities in the country. This assessment and the visualization of the results are expected to support the realization of future sustainable cities.
AB - Cities must improve their quality without an increase, or ideally with a decrease, in the amount of environmental load to become more sustainable. In order to monitor city’s progress towards sustainable development goals, a Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (CASBEE) tool, named CASBEE-City has been developed. All cities in Japan are assessed from the following two aspects: environmental load (L) on the external environment and quality (Q), which represents the citizens’ quality of life inside the city. Built environment efficiency (BEE = Q/L) is then calculated for the comprehensive assessment of each city. A high BEE value indicates that the city has excellent environmental efficiency. The assessment results are visually displayed on the map by using a geographic information system so that citizens, local government officers, and all other stakeholders can easily understand the actual status of their city in comparison with other cities in the country. This assessment and the visualization of the results are expected to support the realization of future sustainable cities.
KW - City assessment
KW - Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (CASBEE)
KW - Environmental efficiency
KW - Geographic information system
KW - Sustainable development
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U2 - 10.5390/SUSB.2011.2.4.293
DO - 10.5390/SUSB.2011.2.4.293
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85008827387
SN - 2093-761X
VL - 2
SP - 293
EP - 301
JO - International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development
JF - International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development
IS - 4
ER -