Dear Sir/Madam,

I visited your website and found the work you are doing very interesting.
With this e-mail I would like to draw your attention to a book which I
edited at the Human Ecology Dept., Free University of Brussels. I thought it
might be an interesting addition to your library.

Sincerely,
Dimitri Devuyst

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How Green Is the City?
Sustainability Assessment and the Management of Urban Environments





Edited by Dimitri Devuyst with Luc Hens and Walter De Lannoy


Columbia University Press

Urban lifestyles characterized by high consumption levels, exuberant use of
natural resources, excessive production of waste, a widening gap between
rich and poor, and rapid growth of the global human population pose a major
problem for the future survival of our species. Urban development must
therefore meet the needs of the present generations without compromising the
needs of future generations. Putting this goal into practice remains a major
challenge.
This book introduces "sustainability assessment," a new concept that aims to
help in steering societies in a more sustainable direction, and applies this
concept to cities. It deals with practical ways to reach a more sustainable
state in urban areas through such tools as strategic environmental
assessment, sustainability assessment, direction analysis, baseline setting
and progress measurement, sustainability targets, and ecological footprint
analysis. With these tools, humans can maintain or improve the health,
productivity, and quality of their lives in harmony with nature.

Contributors: Dimitri Devuyst; Rodney R. White; William M. Lafferty; Mark
Roseland; Thomas van Wijngaarden; Dimitri Devuyst; Dimitri Devuyst; Lone
Koernoev; Dimitri Devuyst; Dimitri Devuyst; Carlo Aall; Dimitri Devuyst;
Thomas van Wijngaarden; Elizabeth Kline; Mark Roseland; Dimitri Devuyst;
William E. Rees; Dimitri Devuyst; Paul Harland and Henk Staats; Susanne
Bruppacher; Dimitri Devuyst and Sofie Van Volsem

Contents
Introduction to Sustainability Assessment at the Local Level Dimitri
Devuyst
The Conundrum of Urban Sustainability William E. Rees
Part I. Sustainable Development in Urban Areas Dimitri Devuyst
Sustainable Development in Urban Areas: An Overview Rodney R. White
Linking Impact Assessment with Sustainable Development and the Introduction
of Strategic Environmental Assessment Dimitri Devuyst
Local Agenda 21: The Pursuit of Sustainable Development. in Subnational
Domains William M. Lafferty
The Eco-City Approach to Sustainable Development in Urban Areas Mark
Roseland
Sustainability Assessment in Practice:. Case Studies Using the ASSIPAC
Methodology Dimitri Devuyst
An Example of Eco-City Development: Urban Agriculture Thomas van
Wijngaarden
Sustainable Development at the Local Level: The North-South Context
Dimitri Devuyst
Part II: Urban Sustainability Assessment Tools in the Decision-Making
Process Dimitri Devuyst
Strategic Environmental Assessment and the Decision-Making Process Lone
Koernoev
Sustainability Assessment at the Local Level Dimitri Devuyst
Striving for Sustainability via Behavioral Modification at the Household
Level: Psychological Aspects and Effectiveness Paul Harland and Henk
Staats
Direction Analysis: An Example of Municipal Sustainability Assessment in
Norway Carlo Aall
Part III: Tools for Setting a Baseline and Measuring Progress in Urban
Sustainability Assessment Dimitri Devuyst
Indicators of Sustainable Development Thomas van Wijngaarden
Indicators for Sustainable Development in Urban Areas Elizabeth Kline
Additional Examples of the Use of Sustainability Indicators at the Local
Level Mark Roseland
Sustainability Reporting and the Development of Sustainability Targets
Dimitri Devuyst
Global Change, Ecological Footprints, and Urban Sustainability William
E. Rees
Part IV: Tools for Sustainability Assessment at the Household Level
Dimitri Devuyst
Global Action Plan Research in Switzerland Susanne Bruppacher
Sustainable Lifestyle Assessment Dimitri Devuyst and Sofie Van Volsem
Linking Sustainability Assessment to a Vision for a Sustainable Future
Dimitri Devuyst
Index

About the author: Dimitri Devuyst is a postdoctoral fellow for the Fund for
Scientific Research in Flanders, Belgium, and visiting professor of ecology
at the Human Ecology Department at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.



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Dr. Dimitri Devuyst
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Laarbeeklaan 103, 1090 Brussel
Belgium
e-mail: dimitri.devuyst@... <mailto:dimitri.devuyst@...>


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