Abstract :
In recent years, sustainability has increased its importance in the international arena and has
become an emerging global paradigm. Nowadays, the phenomenon of sustainability, which
discussed in local, regional and global levels, lands the cities, hosting enormous human
communities, with great responsibilities. The approaches, emerging as a result of internationally
widespread debates on the case of concepts such as ‘‘urban sustainability’’, ‘sustainable city’’
and ‘‘sustainable human settlements’’, increase the social, economical and environmental
resporsibilities of cities day by day. In the process of converting cities to sustainable human
settlements, local governments, which is the closest public authorities to human communities,
take one of the most important roles. The main tasks of local governments in this context are to
produce sustainability policies and to measure sustainability performance
Keyword :
Sürdürülebilirlik, kentsel sürdürülebilirlik, yerel yönetimler, sürdürülebilirlik performans?, performans göstergeleri