Audit udržitelného rozvoje. Efektivní nástroj hodnocení udržitelného rozvoje měst ČR

• Authors: Janoušková Svatava , Hák Tomáš , Moldan Bedřich

Title variants

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The Sustainable Development Audit as an effective tool for evaluation of sustainable development of towns and cities in the Czech Republic

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

CS

Co je – nebo spíše není – udržitelné město, je sice intuitivně pochopitelné, nicméně existující vágní definice neposkytují potřebný podklad pro řízení obcí a měst v postupu k udržitelnosti. V České republice již deset let mohou města pro tento účel využívat praktický nástroj, kterým je tzv. Audit udržitelného rozvoje. Audit pomáhá identifikovat silné a slabé stránky města z hlediska principů udržitelného rozvoje a stává se tak jedním z významných analytických podkladů pro strategické a koncepční dokumenty každé udržitelné municipality. Článek přináší analýzu Metodiky hodnocení udržitelných měst, která tvoří východisko ke zpracování Auditu. Oproti teoretickému konceptu či modelu udržitelného města, který je nutně buďto příliš zjednodušující, nebo naopak komplexní, a tím pro praxi nepoužitelný, vychází Metodika z mezinárodně přijatých principů místní udržitelnosti v podobě Aalborských závazků. Ty rozpracovává do podoby specifických návodných otázek a indikátorů. Analýza se zaměřuje na aplikaci klíčových kritérií kvality indikátorů – relevanci, věrohodnost a legitimitu. Článek zasazuje Audit udržitelného rozvoje měst v ČR do mezinárodního kontextu a současných poznatků o hodnocení udržitelného rozvoje.

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What is or is not a sustainable city can be understood intuitively. Nevertheless, current definitions are too vague to provide a relevant basis for sustainability-focused management of towns and cities. The Sustainable Development Audit was introduced ten years ago as a practical tool to be used by Czech municipalities to identify the strengths and weaknesses of cities as related to principles of sustainable urban development. Since then the Audit has become an important analytical material for strategic and conceptual documents of all sustainable municipalities. This article is an analysis of the Methodology for Evaluation of Sustainable Cities, which is the starting component of the Audit. Instead of theoretical concepts and models, which are either too simplistic or too complex and inapplicable in practice, this Methodology is based on international principles of local sustainability (known as the Aalborg Commitments) transformed into guideline questions and indicators. Our analysis is focused on major quality criteria of these indicators: relevance, credibility and legitimacy. The article puts the Sustainable Development Audit in the Czech Republic into the current international context in terms of evaluation in sustainable development.

Keywords

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analýza; audit; evaluace; metodika; města; udržitelný rozvoj

EN

analysis; audit; evaluation; methodology; cities; sustainable development

• Publisher: Ministerstvo pro místní rozvoj ČR. Ústav územního rozvoje
• Journal: Urbanismus a územní rozvoj
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 32-40

Contributors

author

Janoušková Svatava

• Charles University Environment centre

author

Hák Tomáš

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Moldan Bedřich

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