Where urban planning is used to promote environmental sustainability, it has traditionally
focused on reducing emissions from housing and traffic. However, cities are increasingly …

Sustainable consumption has been addressed from different perspectives in numerous
studies. Recently, urban structure-related lifestyle issues have gained more emphasis in the …

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) practices in Europe have been traditionally
applied to assess potential environmental impacts due to socio-economic drivers implying …

Urban environmental sustainability assessment is increasingly a part of urban planning,
from the perspective of mitigating local and global impacts and for adapting to regional and …

Purpose The purpose of the study is to quantify the environmental performance of Smart City
Solutions at urban system level and thus evaluate their contribution to develop …

National climate change mitigation objectives must be translated to the city level and to
specific sectors, with locally-relevant policy measures. However, assessing the …

Purpose The main goal of this special issue is to further the understanding of how to
integrate life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) methods and tools in the urban …

Abstract Cities are responsible for 75%–80% of emissions worldwide, and policies that
target emissions reductions are often implemented at an urban scale. This paper reviews …

High resource utilization in the residential sector, and the associated environmental impacts,
are central issues in the growth of urban regions. Land-use urban planning is a primary …

Defining sustainable cities is not straightforward. The main issues involved in urban
sustainability are buildings, energy, food, green areas and landscape, mobility, urban …