Urban sustainability
indicators are tools that allow city planners, city managers and policymakersto
gauge the socio-economic and environmental impact of, for example, current
urban designs,infrastructures, policies, waste disposal systems, pollution and
access to services by citizens. They allow for the diagnosis of problems and
pressures, and thus the identification of areas that would profit from being
addressed through good governance and science-based responses. They also allow
cities to monitor the success and impact of sustainability inventions. This
report aims to provide local government actors and stakeholders with a concise
guide to the best currently available indicator tools for sustainable cities,
focusing on the environmental dimension. e tools summarised herein were chosen
based on scalability and ease of use, and the positive and negative aspects of
each for di erent situations of cities are addressed, along with real-world
case studies that demonstrate how they can be implemented.
