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Development of a comprehensive city assessment tool: CASBEE-City

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Pages 195-210 | Published online: 11 Apr 2011
 

Abstract

Conducting city assessments and disclosing those results to the public is important for supporting citizens' understanding of the actual condition of their city. Such assessment and disclosure could introduce a market mechanism that can be expected to provide city governments with strong incentives to improve their city conditions and also recognizes that local policy and strategy can be the most appropriate way to address specific urban and environmental problems. The latest Comprehensive Assessment System for Built Environment Efficiency (CASBEE) tool, referred to as CASBEE-City, is presented. Designed specifically for city assessment, it supports local governments and other stakeholders in identifying the environmental, social and economic characteristics of their city and in quantifying the effectiveness of their city-wide policies. CASBEE-City is based on the concept of environmental efficiency and it provides a combined evaluation of a city embracing two aspects: the environmental load imposed by the city on the wider environment outside its boundary, and the quality of life (environmental, social, economic) inside the city. A city with low environmental load and high quality receives a high Built Environment Efficiency (BEE) value and is regarded as a sustainable city within the CASBEE framework.

Il est important de mener des évaluations urbaines et d'en divulguer les résultats auprès du public pour aider les citoyens à comprendre ce qu'est la situation réelle de leur ville. Une telle évaluation et une telle divulgation pourraient introduire un mécanisme de marché dont on peut attendre qu'il fournisse aux municipalités de fortes incitations pour améliorer les conditions existant dans leur ville, en reconnaissant également le fait que les politiques et les stratégies locales peuvent être la manière la plus adaptée de s'attaquer à des problèmes urbains et environnementaux spécifiques. Le dernier outil proposé par le Système Exhaustif d'Evaluation de l'Efficacité du Cadre Bâti (CASBEE), dénommé CASBEE-City, est présenté. Spécialement conçu pour l'évaluation urbaine, il aide les collectivités locales et les autres parties prenantes à identifier les caractéristiques environnementales, sociales et économiques de leur ville et à quantifier l'efficacité de leurs politiques à l'échelle de la ville. CASBEE-City est basé sur le concept d'efficacité environnementale et assure une évaluation combinée d'une ville, englobant deux aspects : la charge environnementale imposée par la ville à son environnement élargi, au-delà de ses limites, et la qualité de la vie (environnementale, sociale, économique) à l'intérieur de la ville. Une ville offrant une charge environnementale faible et une qualité élevée reçoit une notation d'Efficacité du Cadre Bâti élevée et est considérée comme une ville durable dans le cadre du système CASBEE.

Mots clés: efficacité du cadre bâti, villes, changement climatique, évaluation environnementale, Système Exhaustif d'Evaluation de l'Efficacité du Cadre Bâti (CASBEE), émissions de gaz à effet de serre, sociétés bas carbone, développement durable, outils urbains

Acknowledgements

This study is part of a project conducted under the auspices of the Committee for the Development of an Environmental Performance Assessment Tool for Cities. The authors would like to thank the members of the Committee, the Promotion Council of Low Carbon Cities, the Regional Revitalization Office and all others who have contributed to the study.

Notes

Members of the Committee for the Development of an Environmental Performance Assessment Tool for Cities were mainly professors, experts in city planning, administrative officers and the like. The authors are the core members of the committee and contributed significantly to the development of CASBEE-City.

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Questionnaires were distributed to the member cities of the Working Group for the Promotion of Measures for Low-Carbon Cities and Regions established under the auspices of the Promotion Council of Low Carbon Cities in Japan.

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