Sustainability Assessment of Cities

Want to learn how to assess the sustainability of cities? This is the course for you! In this course, you will be equipped with the concepts, and tools to conduct a sustainability assessment of cities. This course is a hands-on course. Each week offers you a set of videos, reading material, and exercises - you will perform a sustainability assessment yourself. We start by introducing you to the key concepts of sustainability and sustainability frameworks. Then, you will become familiar with key sustainability issues in cities: Energy, Mobility, Housing and Infrastructure. Then we dig into the method itself. You will learn (i) the building blocks of Sustainability assessment – the systemic, normative and procedural aspects; (ii) how to select pertinent indicators for your Sustainability Assessment and how to put together an Influence Matrix using the selected indicators; and (iii) how to conduct a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. And finally, we will teach you the basics of policymaking and how sustainability assessments can be an important element in framing sustainability policy. 3b

• ● How to conduct a systemic sustainability assessment ● Key sustainability definitions and frameworks● Sustainability challenges of cities● Political dimension of sustainability assessments