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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 t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Council for Science. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
Otros Autores: Hák, Tomáš, 1961-, Moldan, Bedřich, Dahl, Arthur L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2007.
Colección:SCOPE report ; 67.
Temas:
Environmental indicators.
Sustainable development > Evaluation.
Environmental monitoring > Evaluation.
Indicateurs écologiques.
Développement durable > Évaluation.
Environnement > Surveillance > Évaluation.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
Environmental indicators
Environmental monitoring > Evaluation
Sustainable development > Evaluation
Umweltindikator
Nachhaltigkeit
Methode
Natuurbehoud.
Natuurbeschermingswet.
Natuurwetenschappen.
Natuurbeheer.
Desenvolvimento sustentável.
Monitoramento ambiental.
Sustentabilidade (indicadores)
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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