Urban sustainability assessment and ranking of cities

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 64, Issue , 2017, Pages 254-265

  Phillis, Yannis A ^a   Kouikoglou, Vassilis S ^a   Verdugo, Catalina ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DE CHIMBORAZO   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Fuzzy assessment of sustainability; Improvement of sustainability; Indicators of sustainability; Sustainable cities; Urban sustainability

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOLOGY; GREENHOUSE GASES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EUROPEAN CITIES; FUZZY ASSESSMENTS; FUZZY EVALUATION; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE CITIES; URBAN SUSTAINABILITY; WASTE GENERATION; WELL BEING;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON EMISSION; CRIME; DEVELOPING WORLD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GREENHOUSE GAS; POVERTY; RANKING; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN SOCIETY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AFRICA; ASIA; EUROPE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 85015683050     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2017.03.002     Document Type: Article

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