Sustainable Urban Development Volume 2: The Environmental Assessment Methods Sustainable Urban Development Series

In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set out in Volume 1, 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.

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 and studies, as well as other areas of the built environment.