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      Integrating urban ecosystem sustainability assessment into policy-making: insights from the Gold Coast City

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      Dizdaroglu, D.
      Yigitcanlar, T.
      Date
      2016
      Source Title
      Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
      Print ISSN
      0964-0568
      Electronic ISSN
      1360-0559
      Publisher
      Routledge
      Volume
      59
      Issue
      11
      Pages
      1982 - 2006
      Language
      English
      Type
      Article
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      Abstract
      This paper introduces a policy-making support tool called ‘Micro-level Urban-ecosystem Sustainability IndeX (MUSIX)’. The index serves as a sustainability assessment model that monitors six aspects of urban ecosystems – hydrology, ecology, pollution, location, design, and efficiency – based on parcel-scale indicators. This index is applied in a case study investigation in the Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia. The outcomes reveal that there are major environmental problems caused by increased impervious surfaces from growing urban development in the study area. The findings suggest that increased impervious surfaces are linked to increased surface runoff, car dependency, transport-related pollution, poor public transport accessibility, and unsustainable built environment. This paper presents how the MUSIX outputs can be used to guide policy-making through the evaluation of existing policies.
      Keywords
      Composite index sustainability assessment;;
      Gold Coast City
      Parcel-scale spatial analysis
      Sustainability assessment
      Urban ecosystem
      Australia
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/36618
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      http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2015.1103211
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