Article type :

Original article

Author :

Onur AKÇAKAYA

Volume :

2

Issue :

4

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