Sustainability Assessment of Urban Infrastructure Systems: Indicators and Aggregated Indices offers practical support for researchers, policymakers, and students to address the challenges of implementing sustainability in infrastructure systems. Beginning with essential background information on sustainable development and assessment, the book goes on to present specific frameworks that can be applied to various types of infrastructure systems, including water supply, sewage, stormwater, transportation, residential neighborhoods industries, waste management, educational institutions, and other public facilities. Utilizing a consistent structure for the frameworks, Sustainability Assessment of Urban Infrastructure Systems allows for the clear application of these frameworks and provides support in understanding them through case studies and worked examples. It presents clear applications for the frameworks and how they can be used for decision-making, and it concludes by identifying future research needs.

Presents foundational information on infrastructure systems and sustainability challenges facing them

Illustrates structured frameworks for addressing sustainability challenges and includes case studies with solved examples to demonstrate their applications

Provides mathematical applications to solve and include environmental valuation in the decision-making process

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