| Description |
1 online resource (443 pages) |
| Series |
SCOPE series |
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SCOPE report ; 67.
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| Contents |
""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Figures, Tables, Boxes and Appendices""; ""Foreword: Finding the Right Indicators for Policymaking""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Ch. 1: Challenges to Sustainability Indicators""; ""Part I: Cross-Cutting Issues""; ""Ch. 2: Meeting Conceptual Challenges""; ""Ch. 3: Indentifying Methodological Challenges""; ""Ch. 4: Ensuring Policy Relevance""; ""Part II: General Approaches""; ""Ch. 5: Indicators: Boring Statistics or the Key to Sustainable Development?""; ""Ch. 6: Sustainability Indicators: An Economist's View"" |
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""Ch. 7: The Institutional Dimension of Sustainable Development""""Part III: Methodological Aspects""; ""Ch. 8: Frameworks for Environmental Assessment and Indicators at the EEA""; ""Ch. 9: Frameworks for Policy Integration Indicators, for Sustainable Development, and for Evaluating Complex Scientific Evidence""; ""Ch. 10: Integrated Assessment and Indicators""; ""Ch. 11: Qualitative System Sustainability Index: A New Type of Sustainability Indicator""; ""Part IV: System and Sectoral Approaches""; ""Ch. 12: Indicators of Natural Resource Use and Consumption"" |
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""Ch. 13: Indicators to Measure Decoupling of Environmental Pressure from Economic Growth""""Ch. 14: Geobiosphere Load: Proposal for an Index""; ""Ch. 15: Sustainable Development and the Use of Health and Environment Indicators""; ""Ch. 16: Biodiversity Indicators""; ""Ch. 17: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) as an Indicator for Pressures on Biodiversity""; ""Part V: Case Studies""; ""Ch. 18: The Development of UK Sustainable Development Indicators: Making Indicators Work"" |
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""Ch. 19: Developing Tools for the Assessment of Sustainable Development in teh Province of Brabant, the Netherlands""""Ch. 20: Sustainability Assessment Indicators: Development and Practice in China""; ""Ch. 21: Core Set of UNEP GEO Indicators Among Global Environmental Indices, Indicators, and Data""; ""Ch. 22: Further Work Needed to Develop Sustainable Development Indicators""; ""Ch. 23: The Yale and Columbia Universities' Environmental Sustainability Index 2005""; ""Annex: Menu of Selected Sustainable Development Indicators""; ""Contributors""; ""SCOPE Series List""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Environmental indicators.
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Sustainable development -- Evaluation
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Environmental monitoring -- Evaluation
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Environmental indicators
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Environmental monitoring -- Evaluation
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Sustainable development -- Evaluation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hak, Tomas
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Moldan, Bedrich
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| ISBN |
9781597266284 |
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1597266280 |
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