Work package 8
Project
components and their interpendencies
Policy
insights and insights for sustainability
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Leading institution:
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This WP has 3
objectives:
- define
objectives (sustainability and others) of policy makers: what are the
components (economic, environmental, social, etc.), what is the horizon (5
years or 50 years), valuation of each component (monetary and or categorical)
as well as the level of aggregation;
- translate
the model outputs into objectives for policy makers: this includes developing
output reports for the model and suggesting feedbacks of some elements for the
model development (local environmental quality has a clear feedback on housing
demand and prices);
- define
alternative sustainability policy packages, translate them into model inputs
and discuss expected outcomes.
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KUL
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The
development of urban areas is holistic and therefore difficult to grasp. The
policy makers are expected to improve the economic, environmental, transport
and social performance of their city. This is difficult for two reasons. First,
these indicators interact in a complex way and there is often a trade-off between
them. Second, the policy maker has to decide between alternative developments
that differ in many dimensions: some parts of the city may do better (say
within a toll cordon), others worse (say outside the toll cordon), some income
groups do better than others when city centre is revitalised, there may be a
short term gain (by making an area greener and safer) but a long term loss
(this may cause a loss of social integration in the city). The SustainCity
model helps to understand the complex relations between the different policy dimensions
and helps to translate the effects of policy actions into outcomes. What is
lacking is the operationalisation of the complex SustainCity model into policy
inputs and policy outcomes. This is the objective of this work package.