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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264163201
This publication presents leading environmental indicators from the OECD Core Set and thus contributes to measuring environmental performance and progress towards sustainable development.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Environmental indicators
ISBN : OCLC:278001782
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264187641
The book contains the proceedings of the OECD Conference that was held in Rome in December 1999. It presents the wide range of initiatives and indicators that are already in place, and outlines the challenges that remain in measuring progress towards sustainable development.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264193499
This publication measures environmental performance and progress towards sustainable development.
Author : Tomás Hák,Bedrich Moldan,Arthur Lyon Dahl
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781597266284
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.
Author : Bedrich Moldan,Suzanne Billharz,Robyn Matravers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023460921
This volume is a synthesis of current scientific advice on the future course of work, in the international context, on indicators of sustainable development. It provides input from the scientific and academic community regarding priority areas and direction for future work. It synthesizes current on the ground experience for the decision maker. The volume has special significance in the context of the ongoing CSD multi-thematic programme, which includes 1997.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264012196
This book includes key environmental indicators endorsed by OECD Environment Ministers and major environmental indicators from the OECD Core Set.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264187641
The book contains the proceedings of the OECD Conference that was held in Rome in December 1999. It presents the wide range of initiatives and indicators that are already in place, and outlines the challenges that remain in measuring progress towards sustainable development.
Author : Agnieszka Latawiec,Dorice Agol
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783110450507
The goal of sustainable development is to meet the socio-economic and environmental objectives without comprising the needs of future generations. Since the Rio Summit of 1992, the concept of sustainability has captured our imaginations and aspirations and efforts to develop its indicators have increased. A range of sustainability indicators have been developed within various socio-economic, environmental and cultural contexts- including biodiversity, economy, energy, water, land use and transport. Sustainability indicators are widespread in international development arena. They have become popularized among governments, non-governmental organizations, private sector and the wider public. Based on multiple cases across the world, this book explores opportunities and challenges associated with the practical application of sustainability indicators. The book reflects diversity of professionals of inter-disciplinary backgrounds covering contemporary issues within different socio-economic and environmental contexts. Each chapter presents practical examples of the merits and challenges of using sustainability indicators and draws conclusions and lessons learned. The book targets a range of audience from students, academics to development practitioners and policy-makers. The two editors of this book: Dr. Agnieszka Ewa Latawiec and Dr. Dorice Agol are inter-disciplinary scientists who both have experience in research at the environmental conservation and development nexus.
Author : Laszlo Pinter,Peter Hardi,Lisa McRorie-Harvey,International Institute for Sustainable Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000025780215
A new field of integrated performance measurement is rapidly evolving, in which sustainability is defined in terms of contextually relevant economic, environmental, and social indicators. There is a corresponding international momentum for progress on sustainability-related performance measurement, with a requirement for the development of methodologies and indicator sets that are comparable across various scales and sectors. This publication is a compendium of indicator initiatives and publications which is intended to provide up-to-date and essential information needed by practitioners to establish partnerships and orient themselves in this field. The section on experts and initiatives is arranged geographically by continent, with separate subsections for Canada, the United States, United Nations, and other initiatives with a global mandate. Information given for each initiative or expert includes project and contact name, addresses (including electronic mail) and phone numbers, description of initiative, and publications if any. The bibliographic section is arranged alphabetically by author under topics including theory and methods of sustainable development indicators, ecosystem and ecoregion-based indicators, geographically based indicators, and livelihood system indicators. Includes author, subject, and organisation index, and a list of acronyms.
Author : Simon Bell,Stephen Morse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136556012
Praise for the first edition: 'This book should be of interest to anyone interested in sustainable development, and especially sustainability indicators. Bell and Morse easily succeed in exposing the fundamental paradoxes of these concepts and, more importantly, they offer us a way forward. Readers ... will find their practical recommendations for those attempting to do sustainability analysis in the field most welcome, which is also the book's greatest strength.' Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 'This book makes a valuable contribution to the theory and practice of using indicators for sustainability. It introduces systems ideas and a range of tools and techniques that have the potential to broaden and deepen our understanding of a whole range of complex situations. Well worth a closer look.' Christine Blackmore, Open University 'This is a book that explores new ways of thinking about how to measure sustainability... It offers stimulating food for thought for environmental educators and researchers.' Environmental Education Research 'This book tells me, as an SI 'practitioner', where I have been and why, and more importantly how I should be thinking in order to effectively present to and empower the local community in the years ahead.' David Ellis, Principal Pollution Monitoring Officer, Norwich City Council 'A practical guide to the development of sustainability indicators which offers a systemic and participative way to use them at local scale. Our preliminary results are highly positive and the approach is applicable in many contexts.' Elisabeth Coudert, Programme Officer Prospective and Regional Development, Blue Plan The groundbreaking first edition of Sustainability Indicators reviewed the development and value of sustainability indicators and discussed the advantage of taking a holistic and qualitative approach rather than focusing on strictly quantitative measures. In the new edition the authors bring the literature up to date and show that the basic requirement for a systemic approach is now well grounded in the evidence. They examine the origins and development of Systemic Sustainability Analysis (SSA) as a theoretical approach to sustainability which has been developed in practice in a number of countries on an array of projects since the first edition. They look at how SSA has evolved into the practical approaches of Systemic Prospective Sustainability Analysis (SPSA) and IMAGINE, and, in particular, how a wide range of participatory methodologies have been adopted over the years. They also provide an assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of projects that undertake work in the general field of sustainable development.
Author : Allen L. Hammond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016859568
Drawing on illustrative examples and case studies, this work provides a conceptual model for designing empirical indicators of environmentally sustainable development. It proposes specific and highly aggregated indicators at a national level.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Air quality
ISBN : UCSD:31822006440341
Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9280726838
Although the environment of North America is not dissected by political borders, Canada and the United States often measure environmental conditions and report on them using different indicators. This report examines the environmental indicators used by both nations, and based on analysis of current research into common methodologies used in national, regional and global environmental reporting, it goes on to draw lessons for the development of bilateral indicators to cover the North American region.
Author : Simon Bell,Stephen Morse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317200321
This handbook provides researchers and students with an overview of the field of sustainability indicators (SIs) as applied in the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development. The editors have sought to include views from the center ground of SI development but also divergent ideas which represent some of the diverse, challenging and even edgy observations which are prominent in the wider field of SI thinking. The contributions in this handbook: • clearly set out the theoretical background and history of SIs, their origins, roots and initial goals • expand on the disciplines and modalities employed to develop SIs of various kinds • assess the various ways in which SI data are gathered and the availability (over space and time) and quality issues that surround them • explore the multiplex world of SIs as expressed in agencies around the world, via examples of SI practice and the lessons that have emerged from them • critically review the progress that SIs have made over the last 30 years • express the divergence of views which are held about the value of SIs, including differing theories on their efficacy, efficiency and ethics • explore the frontier of contemporary SI thinking, reviewing ante/post and systemic alternatives This multidisciplinary and international handbook will be of great interest to researchers, students and practitioners working in sustainability research and practice.