Evaluating Sustainable Development in the Built Environment -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Setting the Context for Evaluating Sustainable Development -- The environmental perspective -- The international policy debates -- Extension of the debate -- The impact of the built environment -- The current response of the built environment community -- Sustainability: a definition -- Seeking a shared set of values -- Striving for a common framework and classification system -- The characteristics of assessment and measurement for sustainable development -- Management and intervention for sustainable development -- Implementing management decisions -- Summary -- 2 Time and Sustainability -- Innovation and stability -- Perceptions of sustainable development -- Critical failure points -- Time in evaluation -- Future aversion -- Clever or wise? -- Practical assessment of 'time' -- The luxury of the 'time' horizon -- 3 Approaches to Evaluation -- The Natural Step -- The concept of community capital -- The ecological footprint -- Monetary (capital) approach -- The driving force-state-response model -- Issues or theme-based frameworks -- Accounting frameworks -- Frameworks of assessment methods' tool kits -- Summary and conclusions -- 4 Indicators and Measures -- Why evaluate? -- Traditional versus sustainable development indicators -- Generic and specific questions -- International indicators -- Aggregated indicators -- Discussion -- Summary -- 5 Assessment Methods -- A directory of assessment methods -- An outline summary of the main assessment methods, tools and procedures in use -- Summary and conclusions -- 6 A Proposed Framework for Evaluating Sustainable Development -- The need for a holistic and integrated framework -- The theoretical underpinning of the framework -- The built environment explained by the modalities.

The 15 modalities for understanding sustainable development in the built environment -- Development of the multi-modal framework for decision-making -- Key questions for examining sustainable development within each modality -- Synthesis of results -- Summary -- 7 The Framework as a Structuring Tool: Case Studies -- Case study 1: selection of a municipal waste treatment system -- Case study 2: evaluation of sustainable redevelopment scenarios for an urban area -- Case study 3: 'multi-stakeholder' urban regeneration decision-making -- Case study 4: social reporting of Modena City strategic plan -- Summary and conclusion -- 8 Towards Management Systems and Protocols -- Who manages? -- The planning framework -- Management in a learning organisation -- Soft system methodology -- Wicked problems -- Process protocols -- A possible approach -- The Vancouver study -- The conclusions of the Vancouver study -- Follow through on the Vancouver study -- Resilience -- 9 Education and Research -- A research agenda -- In conclusion -- Appendix A: The Philosophy of the 'Cosmonomic Idea of Reality' -- References -- Websites -- Bibliography -- Index.