Proposição de indicadores para gestão e monitoramento da sustentabilidade de grandes loteamentos urbanos

Abstract

As the city is the typical and characteristic habitat of modern man, given the estimates of an increase in the urban population in the coming decades, it is crucial to assess the performance of the city environment in terms of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG - UN, 2015). Several studies confirm the role of the urban environment as a catalyst for the climate change process, in addition to being responsible for a considerable fraction of global emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG), promoting increasing soil sealing, consuming significant amounts of natural resources, energy and water and an exacerbated generation of tailings. Given this context, this paper aims to propose simple and effective tools to evaluate the adherence of large urban subdivisions to the precepts that govern the concept of sustainable development, having as reference the most relevant sustainability assessment metrics in the international context and the systematic by behind the main existing environmental certifications. Therefore, it is believed that the use of the indicators designed by this work constitutes an efficient means to improve the sustainability of settlements, while allowing its quantification by different evaluation spectra, providing useful measurement instruments for the local government, commercial legal entity and/or private civil society association is able to inspect the social, environmental and economic parameters of new subdivisions throughout their life cycle.