Assessing Sustainability for Urban Regeneration in a River Corridor — Accounting for Climate Change

There are many approaches and tools available for `sustainability assessment'. These share a common foundation in that they take a number of base pillars, invariably including: social, economic and environmental considerations or some variant thereof. The difficulties lie in how these can be combined to make a sustainability assessment (i.e. integrating non-commensurate factors). The current consensus for this is that the information collected in the form of attributes, indicators and criteria, should be used to support discourse amongst the stakeholders in deciding on interventions that are more sustainable. A project is described that is looking at portfolios of interventions in a river corridor with the objective of improving liveability in Sheffield and how the sustainability assessment framework for this has been set up and is being applied.