LEADER 04708nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910971215703321 005 20251116232555.0 010 $a9781597266284 010 $a1597266280 010 $a9781435642362 010 $a1435642368 035 $a(CKB)1000000000486777 035 $a(EBL)3317454 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3317454 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3317454 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10222014 035 $a(OCoLC)923187357 035 $a(Perlego)3284045 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000486777 100 $a20061024d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aSustainability indicators $ea scientific assessment /$fedited 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 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, DC $cIsland Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (443 p.) 225 1 $aSCOPE series 300 $a"UNEP ; ICSU ; European Environment Agency ; IHDP." 311 08$a9781597261319 311 08$a1597261319 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 330 $aSustainability Indicators helps planners and policy makers find indicators that are ready for application and relevant to their needs, and will help researchers identify the unresolved issues where progress is most urgently needed. All readers will find advice as to the most effective ways to use indicators to support decision making. 410 0$aSCOPE report ;$v67. 606 $aEnvironmental indicators 606 $aSustainable development$xEvaluation 606 $aEnvironmental monitoring$xEvaluation 615 0$aEnvironmental indicators. 615 0$aSustainable development$xEvaluation. 615 0$aEnvironmental monitoring$xEvaluation. 676 $a333.7 701 $aHa?k$b Toma?s?$f1961-$01807874 701 $aMoldan$b Bedr?ich$01677736 701 $aDahl$b Arthur L$01807875 712 02$aInternational Council for Science.$bScientific Committee on Problems of the Environment. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910971215703321 996 $aSustainability indicators$94357856 997 $aUNINA