Integrated Decision-Support Tools for Sustainable Cities

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on Integrated Decision-Support Tools for Sustainable Cities and aims to showcase innovative and alternative approaches and tools that enable inclusive, equitable, transparent, and evidence-based decision making toward urban sustainability. Urban stakeholders and decision makers currently face an abundance of tools that help them to do a small number of things or facilitate only one step of the decision-making process. There is, however, a dearth of tools that help them to connect the dots between their many priorities, avoid false trade-offs, and identify synergies and savings from integrated strategies and interventions. Decision making for sustainable cities requires comprehensive tools to help cities to tackle procedural, institutional, and other challenges in a transformative and systemic manner that enables multiple co-benefits.

We invite article submissions on topics such as:

• Holistic sustainability planning and progress evaluation tools;
• Tools that help all stakeholders to make informed, evidence-based decisions;
• Participatory, inclusive, and equitable local processes;
• Tools for assessing both government performance and community impact
• Interdisciplinary decision making;
• Considering/including multiple values and conflicting priorities in negotiations and decision making;
• Standardized versus context-oriented tools;
• Synergistic approaches to urban sustainability governance;
• Embedding systemic and long-term thinking in local decision-making processes.

Prof. Dr. Mark Roseland
Dr. Maria Spiliotopoulou
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Urban Science is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• urban sustainability
• urban decision-making
• sustainable community development
• sustainable cities
• sustainability tools
• equitable urban processes
• urban sustainability assessment
• sustainability co-benefits
• decision-support tools