The aim of this study is to evaluate the existing available methods that can potentially be applied to anthropogenic spatial entities to access their environmental sustainability. The paper offers an overview of existing sustainability assessment methods, discusses their adequacy, and evaluates their efficiency to assess the environmental sustainability of anthropogenic spatial entities. From a list of sixty-one (61) sustainability assessment methods for spatial entities with anthropogenic activities that had been identified and examined, thirteen (13) methods were selected to be assessed based on specific exclusion criteria set. The thirteen methods were further classified into four categories, namely, (1) Indicators/Indices, (2) Resource Availability Assessment, (3) Material and Energy Flow Analysis, and (4) Life-Cycle Assessment, and then these methods were evaluated using specific evaluation criteria. The “Resource Availability Assessment” category, and particularly the “Ecological Footprint” method, was indicated as the most appropriate method to assess the environmental sustainability of anthropogenic spatial entities.

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具有人为活动的空间实体的环境可持续性评估——现有方法的评估

本研究的目的是评估现有的可用方法，这些方法可能适用于人为空间实体以获取其环境可持续性。本文概述了现有的可持续性评估方法，讨论了它们的充分性，并评估了它们在评估人为空间实体的环境可持续性方面的效率。从已确定和检查的具有人为活动的空间实体的六十一 (61) 种可持续性评估方法列表中，选择十三 (13) 种方法进行评估，以根据特定的排除标准集进行评估。这十三种方法进一步分为四类，即（1）指标/指数，（2）资源可用性评估，（3）物质和能量流分析，以及（4）生命周期评估，然后使用特定的评估标准对这些方法进行评估。“资源可用性评估”类别，特别是“生态足迹”方法，被认为是评估人为空间实体环境可持续性的最合适方法。