Building Knowledge on Urban Sustainability in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11240/22:10448721

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Building Knowledge on Urban Sustainability in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Meeting sustainability challenges at a local level requires understanding urban and sustainability concepts and monitoring progress towards set targets. A literature review reveals that a wide array of sustainable city definitions, urban sustainability assessment frameworks, and countless indicators (assessment tools) have been developed and implemented. This study focuses on the indicator-based assessment approach applied at the local level in the Czech Republic. We argue that the self-assessment approach using an appropriate assessment tool or set of tools enables municipal representatives to understand the strengths and weaknesses of their path towards sustainability and allows them to take effective measures to eliminate weaknesses. We demonstrate this in the method entitled &apos;Urban Sustainability Audit&apos; applied by Czech municipalities under the Local Agenda 21 programme. The study describes the original participatory methodology applied by municipalities of various types and sizes which has been in use for nearly a decade. Key findings - benefits and challenges from different types of LA21 implementations reflected by municipal representatives and external evaluation experts - may serve as inspiration for other cities and countries.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Urban Ecology and Global Climate Change

ISBN

978-1-119-80718-6

Number of pages of the result

24

Pages from-to

273-296

Number of pages of the book

368

Publisher name

John Wiley &amp; Sons Ltd.

Place of publication

Oxford

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