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Table 1 (end)

Pollution and waste

Waste Air Water Noise

 Waste  Urban particulates  Drinking water  Noise pollution
 Management and air quality  Water quality index
 Wastewater  Indoor air pollution Water stress
treatment  Local ozone  Water management
 Regional ozone
 NOx and SOx
Social, economy and health

 Social services  Gross Domestic Product  Adequate sanitation
 Citizen satisfaction (GDP)  Disease control and
 Education  Employment mitigation
 Culture and recreation  Financial resilience  Citizen health services
 Social inclusion
 Demographics (aging)

The categories and components reflected in Table 1 evidence that the environment and
sustainability dimension is pivotal to the operations of cities. At the same time, these components
can be used as the basis to design indicators and methods to assess the city's performance in this
field. The development of key performance indicators for SSC is the focus of one of the Technical
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Reports produced by FG‐SSC .
Furthermore, based on Table 1, it is clear that a wide variety of different attributes representing
different aspects related to a city contribute to this dimension. These can be summarized as policy,
infrastructure, management, climate change and CO2 emissions, energy, pollution: water, air, waste,
noise and their implications on the social, health and economic well‐being.

2.2 City level services

The second dimension of a city is its services and how they characterize a functional urban
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environment. Various studies suggest the following attributes for this dimension:

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14 http://www.itu.int/en/ITU‐T/focusgroups/ssc/Pages/default.aspx
15 http://www.cityindicators.org/Deliverables/Indicators%20revised%20‐core%20and%20supporting_8‐31‐
2009‐1743191.pdf
16 UN (2011), The Global Compact Cities Programme – http://citiesprogramme.com
17 Circles of Sustainability: http://citiesprogramme.com/wp‐content/uploads/2013/04/Urban‐Profile‐
Process‐Tool‐V3.3‐web.pdf
18 Siemens websites include links to the Green city index reports.
http://www.nwe.siemens.com/sweden/internet/se/Smartcity/Pages/Default.aspx
http://www.siemens.com/entry/cc/en/urbanization.htm?stc=wwccc020805
19 http://www.citigroup.com/citi/citiforcities/home_articles/n_eiu.htm;
http://www.citigroup.com/citi/citiforcities/pdfs/eiu_hotspots_2012.pdf

16 ITU‐T's Technical Reports and Specifications