Visualization of a City Sustainability Index (CSI): Towards transdisciplinary approaches involving multiple stakeholders

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 12402-12424

  Mori, Koichiro ^a   Fujii, Toyonobu ^b   Yamashita, Tsuguta ^c   Mimura, Yutaka ^d   Uchiyama, Yuta ^e   Hayashi, Kengo ^d  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^e KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic impact; Bottom up; Co design; Co production; Environmental threshold; Indicator; Megacity; Stakeholder

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINT; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MEGACITY; POLICY MAKING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84945237168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su70912402     Document Type: Article

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