Metrics, Knowledge Management and Decision Making

The consortia working within the Metrics, Knowledge Management and Decision Making cluster are as follows:

PUrE >SUE1

Pollutants in the Urban Environment

Universities of Manchester, Cardiff, Exeter, Sheffield, Surrey, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

 

The main aim of PUrE is to develop an integrated decision-support framework to enable more sustainable management of urban pollution. The decision-support framework will comprise a suite of appropriate models and tools for conducting either simple screening studies and/or detailed modelling and assessments of urban pollution.

Key words: Sources of pollution, transport of pollutants, life cycle environmental and health impacts of pollution, evaluation of risks and uncertainty, multi-criteria decision analysis.

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SUEMOT >SUE1

Metrics, Models and Toolkits for Whole Life Sustainable Urban Development

Universities of Dundee, Glasgow Caledonian, Loughborough and St Andrews

 

This consortia aims to encourage sustainable urban development by comparing alternative strategies. These will take into account economic, environmental and social factors through the whole life of a project or urban development. The consortia will also provide tools which allow evaluate economic, environmental and social issues, preferably in a common currency, for decision-makers at every stage of the development process.

 

Key words: Integrated sustainability assessment for urban development projects; stakeholder values; full cost accounting; evaluating environmental equity; assessing the effects of urban developments on social capital; knowledge in an assessment context; bio-physical measures of sustainability.

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PUrE Intrawise >SUE2

Pollutants in the Urban Environment: An Integrated Framework for Improving Sustainability of the Indoor Environment

Start date: January 2008

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4M >SUE2

Measurement, Modelling, Mapping and Management (4M): An Evidence-Based Methodology for Understanding and Shrinking the Urban Carbon Footprint

Start date: January 2008

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SURegen >SUE2

Integrated Decision Support System for Sustainable Urban Regeneration

Universities of Salford, Edinburgh Napier, West of England, Liverpool, Dundee, Oxford Brookes, and Manchester

 

SURegen is a SUE2 project that aims to aims to tackle the complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity of the regeneration process and its outcomes. Support for all engaged in regeneration will be provided through a web based application.

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