Medición de Sostenibilidad en tres ciudades del Ecuador, Quito, Guayaquil y Cuenca con aplicación comparativa a las principales ciudades del mundo

Abstract

With more than 50% of the world's urban population it is important to assess the sustainability of cities and find systematic ways to improve it. The model SAFE (sustainability assessment by fuzzy evaluation), first to measure the sustainability of countries was modified to assess the sustainability of cities in the world. Global sustainability is a function of two main, ecological and welfare entries. The entry depends on the ecological state of the air, land and water and the entry of well-being in the state of the economy, education, health and the civic environment of cities. SAFE uses 46 basic inputs to rank 104 cities according to sustainability. The number of entries can be changed as needed. A sensitivity analysis identifies the key indicators that affect the sustainability of the majority. If these inputs are improved, the sustainability of cities improving faster. So Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca be the three most important cities of Ecuador occupy places 45a, 66a, 76a, respectively. Poverty, crime rates, military spending, green spaces and ease of doing business are the basic indicators to improve in Ecuador. It is recommended to consider sustainability in tis entirely triple and deepen in a system of indicators for the country reality.