Sustainability indicators [[electronic resource] ] : 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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451381603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, DC, : Island Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-59726-628-0; 1-4356-4236-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (443 p.)
• Collana: SCOPE series
• Altri autori (Persone): HákTomáš <1961->; MoldanBedřich; DahlArthur L
• Disciplina: 333.7
• Soggetti: Environmental indicators; Sustainable development - Evaluation; Environmental monitoring - Evaluation; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "UNEP ; ICSU ; European Environment Agency ; IHDP."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Figures, Tables, Boxes and Appendices""; ""Foreword: Finding the Right Indicators for Policy making""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Ch. 1: Challenges to Sustainability Indicators""; ""Part I: Cross-Cutting Issues""; ""Ch. 2: Meeting Conceptual Challenges""; ""Ch. 3: Identifying 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""; ""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""; ""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""; ""Ch. 19: Developing Tools for the Assessment of Sustainable Development in the 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""