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UNINA9910781820103321 |
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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 |
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Washington, DC, : Island Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-59726-628-0 |
1-4356-4236-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (443 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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HákTomáš <1961-> |
MoldanBedřich |
DahlArthur L |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Environmental indicators |
Sustainable development - Evaluation |
Environmental monitoring - Evaluation |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"UNEP ; ICSU ; European Environment Agency ; IHDP." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""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 |
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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"" |
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