ISO DIS 37104

Description / Abstract: ISO 37104 provides guidance on how to implement and maintain a management system for sustainable development based on ISO 37101 principles especially in the context of cities, but applicable to other forms of settlement. This international standard:

— provides guidance to practical implementation of a management system for sustainable development in cities other settlements, based on ISO 37101;

— establishes a methodological framework for the systematic evaluation of the sustainable development achievements in the city or other settlements, with reference to the 6 purposes of ISO 37101; and

— illustrates how other International Standards can be used to support successful implementation of ISO 37101, including, in particular, ISO 37120 (which recommends a suite of city indicators mapped against the 6 purposes of ISO 37101) and ISO 37106 (which provides practical guidance on how to implement joined-up delivery and innovation across organizational boundaries within the city or settlement).

This International Standard is intended for organising bodies, decision makers, execution officers, managers in cities, usually, in the first instance, the relevant local authorities.

This guidance is intended to help cities become more ‘resilient’ and ‘smart’ as well as sustainable, through the implementation at city level of strategies, programmes, projects, plans and services, and provides a platform to help demonstrate and communicate their progress and achievements.

NOTE 1 In the following document, the term "scheme" is used to cover strategies, programs, projects, plans and services.

NOTE 2 The guidance can be used for citywide strategies but also, potentially, for some sectorial schemes at the scale of the city. This International Standard is applicable to a range of types and scales of communities: cities, towns, villages or other kind of human settlements with defined boundaries.

NOTE 3 In this guidance, the term city refers to cities, towns, villages or other kind of human settlements with defined boundaries.

The approach is in line with other deliverables developed by ISO/TC 268 and ISO/TC 268/SC 1 that could be identified as ISO 371XX family.

This guidance can be used in whole or in part to systematically improve a community based sustainable development management system. It serves to provide additional operational instructions of the concepts, examples and ways of meeting the 37101 requirements