Methodology for Framing Indicators for Assessing Economic-Socio-Cultural Sustainability of the Neighbourhood Level Urban
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Methodology for Framing Indicators for Assessing Economic‑Socio‑Cultural Sustainability of the Neighbourhood Level Urban Communities in Indian Megacities: Evidence from Kolkata Sudeshna Kumar1 · Sumitro Bhaumik2 · Haimanti Banerji1 Accepted: 13 November 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract This study presents a comprehensive methodological framework for assessing the economic-socio-cultural (ESC) sustainability of neighborhood-level urban communities (NLUCs) in Kolkata, India. The present study aims to propose a set of indicators through a top-down approach that meets certain criteria for assessing ESC sustainability in specific contexts. In the initial phase, the framework has used a set of existing indicators and tools to measure sustainability. Subsequently, the study has categorized the indicators to measure ESC sustainability based on the assessment of an expert opinion for which the Delphi technique has been employed. Grey relational analysis and RIDIT test have been instigated to validate the importance of the selected sustainability indicators and determine the relationships among the indicators. At the decisive stage, the VIF test is conducted followed by employing Random Forest Classifier, a supervised machine-learning algorithm to identify the redundant indicators. The variables that will be contributing positively towards the prediction performance of the model were included in the final list of indicators. This study prepared the base for designing a model for assessing the ESC sustainability of both planned and unplanned NLUCs. Keywords Neighbourhood sustainability assessment · Indicators · Neighbourhood-level urban communities · Economic-socio-cultural sustainability
* Sudeshna Kumar [email protected] 1
Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
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1 Introduction The concept of sustainability is very complex (Weingaertner and Barber 2010) and elusive incorporating a plethora of meanings (Marshall and Toffel 2005). This has raised debate about the emergence of engaging definitions (Hopwood, Mellor, and O’Brien 2005) of sustainability and sustainable development since the publication of the Brundtland report “Our common future” (Komeily and Srinivasan 2015) which codified sustainable development. While there is no commonly agreed definition of sustainability (Pope et al. 2004; Zheng et al. 2014), and Zeijl-Rozema and Martens (2010) provided a comparatively relevant description, by opining that sustainability cannot be defined with one single concept but it’s a concoction of different situations, ideas, and perspectives, moreover the definition which we will be pursuing will be entailing a normative choice. As per the UN, sustainable development is a concept that strikes a balance between the needs of the present generation and those of future generations (Brundtla
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