Developing Tools for Sustainable Urban Management

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Developing Tools for Sustainable Urban Management

• Prof. Andrew Hursthouse

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Where are we going? Supporting Local
Environmental Management

• Past
• Have considered environmental quality indicators
• Understand
• That business and environment relations are
  important
• Realise
• That spatial information management is needed
• Hope
• That decision making is effective and sustainable

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Community Planning a chance to step forward?

• Community Partnerships for community well-being
• Has brought key stakeholders together
• Sustainable Development as an underlying
  principle
• Opportunity for cross-cutting relationships and
  innovative projects
• Process working well but engaging
  business/industry (SMEs)
• Need for improved information flow

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closing the cycle by improving business
community relationships
Addressing the need

• Regional Business Development
• ERDF a major influence on regional development
• How to ensure SD addressed?

• IT support in SMEs
• reorganising information flow in SMEs (CRM tool)
• Identifying weaknesses and opportunities
• Measuring performance

• Innovative Technology Transfer (SMEs)
• RD support for business performance
• environmental footprint
• building capability and SD

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CRM tools in a Waste Management SME

• Identifying stores
• Establishing links
• Re-organising to improve

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CRM tools in a Waste Management SME

• Changing control of information is fraught
• Ability to coordinate and monitor
• Responding to market/legislation

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ERDF 2000 2006 Programme Overview

• 295m available, max 50 intervention
• Business development - consultancy grant
  support, technology transfer, key sectors
• Infrastructure - sites premises, tourism,
  marketing
• Economic and Social Cohesion - strong community
  focus
• ESF in support of the above
• Three Horizontal Themes - Sustainable
  Development, Equal Opportunities, Innovation

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ERDF Ensuring Environmental Integration

• Selection criteria and indicators are necessary
  but not enough - training awareness raising is
  also essential
• Environmental champions - not necessarily
  agencies - need to be involved in all aspects of
  the decision making process
• We have to show that environmental integration
  produces better projects than the conventional
  approach - green jobs business benefits are key
  to this

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Targeted Industrial Ecology SME support (TIESS)

• Integrated business support
• Running 2002-2005, based on 1994-2001 experience
• Product/process Life-cycle assessment
• Audit, assessment focused RD
• Training programmes

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Targeted Industrial Ecology SME support (TIESS)
Example

• 10 SMEs in process/food sector
• Waste/resource/process audit ( some training)

• 8 (1.1-19) saving on costs (20k-220k)
• With training component 50 greater saving

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Decision Support Tools for Spatial Data Management

• GISplatform common for all spatial data
  management
• e.g. contaminated land
• Environmental fate/transport/quality models used
  in risk assessment
• Model outputs limited in spatial complexity
• Combining GIS with environmental modelling allows
  data presentation in a format to support the
  decision making process

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g N/m2
Nitrate in soil (predicted)
S.Glasgow
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The Integrated Household Waste Management Model
Model-predictions of the variation in recycling
rates across a community

• 61 cost saving
• 20 drop in vehicle emissions
• lt2 drop in tonnage

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Advanced DST - information, prediction, decision
making

• Integrating with www - GIS based models offer
  user-friendly interface, interactive spatial
  information
• communication with remote end users
• collaborative decision making and risk assessment
  environment

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http//urbsoil.paisley.ac.uk
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URBSOIL DST development

• Soil a complex 4-dimensional system
• Urban Soil mixed parent, high variability
• How can Soil Quality be considered in spatial
  planning/management?

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URBSOIL DST development

• Combine GIS-risk assessment models
• Visual results statistical properties
• Web-based consultation, reflection feedback
  (Delphi)
• enhances participation in decision making
• Results in a transparent and robust mechanism
• opportunity for knowledge mapping

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A Sustainable Future for Local Environmental
Management?

• Framework in place
• Ability to form inclusive (active) partnerships
• Information Flow and manipulation is crucial
• Transparency and flexibility in the Decision
  Making Process
• Incorporating feedback

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Information is harder than technology