RT Journal Article
T1 Smart zero carbon city readiness level: sistema de indicadores para el diagnostico de las ciudades en su camino hacia la descarbonizacion y su aplicacion en el Pais Vasco
A1 Urrutia-Azcona, Koldo
A1 Fontán-Agorreta, Luis
A1 Díez-Trinidad, Francisco Javier
A1 Rodríguez-Pérez-Curiel, Francisco
A1 Vicente-Gómez, Julia
AB Nowadays urban environments concentrate more than half the world’s population, reaching up to 70% on 2050 according to forecasts. This concentration implies that most of future challenges will take place in cities as well as the opportunities coming from their potential solutions. Current technological innovation can provide support in facing one of main challenges society is facing: reducing carbon footprint from our cities. This ambitious transition, steered by the Smart Zero Carbon City (SZCC) concept, needs a flexible characterisation method, which can be adapted to different kinds of cities to evaluate the main features of each city, hence proposing and prioritising most suitable interventions. The aim of this study is focused on the characterisation of cities according to the SZCC concept through a set of indicators: the Smart Zero Carbon City Readiness Level (SZCC Readiness Level), able to analyse key aspects of cities according to SZCC concept (Characteristics of the city; City plans and strategies; Energy; Mobility; Infrastructures and ICT services; Citizen Engagement). This characterisation enlightens the development of SZCC concept in the city, identifying its strengths and weaknesses in order to ease the alternatives’ selection towards decarbonisation, being handy at a time for those small and medium-sized municipalities, so common in the European context, which usually hold less resources than big capitals to implement decision-making support diagnoses. In order to validate this set of indicators, SZCC Readiness Level has been implemented in 5 Basque cities, which represent different urban typologies, analysing its current situation regarding SZCC concept.
SN 0012-7361
YR 2018
FD 2018-05
LA eng
NO Urrutia-Azcona , K , Fontán-Agorreta , L , Díez-Trinidad , F J , Rodríguez-Pérez-Curiel , F & Vicente-Gómez , J 2018 , ' Smart zero carbon city readiness level: sistema de indicadores para el diagnostico de las ciudades en su camino hacia la descarbonizacion y su aplicacion en el Pais Vasco ' , Dyna (Spain) , vol. 94 , no. 3 , pp. 332-338 . https://doi.org/10.6036/8476
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