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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971215703321

Titolo

Sustainability indicators : a scientific assessment / / edited by Tomas Hak, Bedrich Moldan, Arthur Lyon Dahl ; a project of SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, of the International Council for Science

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : Island Press, c2007

ISBN

9781597266284

1597266280

9781435642362

1435642368

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

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""

Sommario/riassunto

Sustainability Indicators helps 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.