About this Book

Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2: The Environmental Assessment Methods offers contributions from leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment, providing a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set out in Volume 1 as its point of departure, Volume 2 examines how well the environmental assessment methods evaluate the ecological integrity of urban development and equity of the resulting resource distribution. The examination focuses on: the instruments of environmental assessment approaches to environmental assessment based in systems-thinking methods for environmental, economic and social assessments their use in evaluating the sustainability of urban development. This is the second of three volumes in the research and debate of the BEQUEST (Building, Environmental Quality Evaluation for Sustainability) network funded by the European Commission. Together the books provide a framework, set of protocols, environmental assessment methods and toolkit for policy makers, academics, professionals and advanced level students in Urban Planning, Urban Property Development, Urban Design, Architecture, Construction and related areas of the Built Environment.