Sustainability indicators : a scientific assessment / edited by Tomáš Hák, Bedřich Moldan, Arthur Lyon Dahl ; a project of SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, of the International Council for Science.

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1435642368
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GE140 .S88 2007eb

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QC 347
UMW 020f
UMW 031f
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Contents:

1. Challenges to sustainability indicators -- Part I: Crosscutting Issues -- Chapter 2. Meeting conceptual challenges -- Chapter 3. Identifying methodological challenges -- Chapter 4. Ensuring policy relevance -- Part II: General Approaches -- Chapter 5. Indicators: boring statistics or the key to sustainable development? -- Chapter 6. Sustainability indicators: an economist's view -- Chapter 7. The institutional dimension of sustainable development -- Part III: Methodological Aspects -- Chapter 8. Frameworks for environmental assessment and indicators at the EEA -- Chapter 9. Frameworks for policy integration indicators, sustainable development and for evaluating complex scientific evidence -- Chapter 10. Integrated assessment and indicators -- Chapter 11. Qualitative Systems Sustainability Index: A new type of sustainability indicators -- Part IV: System and Sectoral Approaches -- Chapter 12. Indicators of natural resource use and consumption -- Chapter 13. Indicators to measure decoupling of environmental pressure from economic growth -- Chapter 14. Geobiosphere load: proposal for an index -- Chapter 15. Sustainable development and the use of health-and-environment indicators -- Chapter 16. Biodiversity indicators -- Chapter 17. Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) as indicator for pressures on biodiversity -- Part V: Case Studies -- Chapter 18. The development of UK sustainable development indicators: making indicators work -- Chapter 19. Developing tools for the assessment of sustainable development in the province of Brabant, the Netherlands -- Chapter 20. Sustainability assessment indicators: development and practice in China -- Chapter 21. A Core set of UNEP/GEP Indicators amidst global environmental indices, indicators and data -- Chapter 22. Further work is needed to develop sustainable development indicators -- Chapter 23. The Yale and Columbia Universities' Environmental Sustainability Index 2005 -- Annex. Menu of Selected Sustainable Development Indicators -- List of Contributors -- SCOPE Series List -- SCOPE Executive Committee 2005-2008.

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Review: "While the concept of sustainability has been widely embraced, it has been only vaguely defined and is exceedingly difficult to measure. Sustainability indicators are critical to making the broad concept of sustainability operational by providing specific measures by which decision makers and the public can judge progress. Sustainability Indicators defines the present state of the art in indicator development. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the science behind various indicators, while placing special emphasis on their use as communications tools. The contributors draw on their experience as academics and practitioners to describe the conceptual challenges to measuring something as complex as sustainability at local, regional, national, and global scales. The book also reviews existing indicators to assess how they could be better employed, considering which indicators are overused and which have been underutilized. Sustainability Indicators will help planners and policy makers find indicators that are ready for application and relevant to their needs, and will help researchers identify the unresolved issues where progress is most urgently needed. All readers will find advice as to the most effective ways to use indicators to support decision making."--Publisher description

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"While the concept of sustainability has been widely embraced, it has been only vaguely defined and is exceedingly difficult to measure. Sustainability indicators are critical to making the broad concept of sustainability operational by providing specific measures by which decision makers and the public can judge progress. Sustainability Indicators defines the present state of the art in indicator development. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the science behind various indicators, while placing special emphasis on their use as communications tools. The contributors draw on their experience as academics and practitioners to describe the conceptual challenges to measuring something as complex as sustainability at local, regional, national, and global scales. The book also reviews existing indicators to assess how they could be better employed, considering which indicators are overused and which have been underutilized. Sustainability Indicators will help planners and policy makers find indicators that are ready for application and relevant to their needs, and will help researchers identify the unresolved issues where progress is most urgently needed. All readers will find advice as to the most effective ways to use indicators to support decision making."--Publisher description

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