NSA Screening Tool for Multiple Stakeholders
Year: 2014
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: An urban system can be regarded as a system consisting of smaller building blocks such as\nneighbourhoods. The sustainability of an urban system is hence closely connected to the\nsustainability of neighbourhoods. Neighbourhood Sustainability Assessment (NSA) tools\nhave multiple potential benefits for urban development such as a holistic evaluation and in\nsome cases quantification of potential economic, social, environmental, and institutional\nimpacts, quality assurance, improved cross-functional teamwork, improved processes etc.\nNevertheless there are as yet a reluctance encountered from investors and municipalities in\nterms of applying NSA tools for developing neighbourhoods due to e.g. cost, complexity.\nEven a sustainability pre-certification is according to the existing NSA tools comprehensive,\ntime consuming and not necessarily economical rewarding in the short run. Due to these\nobstacles related with the deployment of NSA tools even at entry level (pre-certification) are\njeopardizing sustainable development of urban sub-systems and sustainability is therefore at\nrisk of being neglected in urban development projects.
DOI: 10.4122/dtu:2812
Author: Secher, A. Qvist
Institution: Technical University of Denmark
Language: English
Subfield: Building and Construction
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2599080240