Sustainability Indicators: A Scientific Assessment - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1597261319 ISBN 13 : 9781597261319

Editeur : Island Press, 2007

Synopsis

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 the public can judge progress. Sustainability Indicators defines the present state of the art in indicator development. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the science behind various indicators, while placing special emphasis on their use as communications tools. The contributors draw on their experience as academics and practitioners to describe the conceptual challenges to measuring something as complex as sustainability at local, regional, national, and global scales. The book also reviews existing indicators to assess how they could be better employed, considering which indicators are overused and which have been underutilized. Sustainability Indicators will help 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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Tomás Hák is Deputy Director and Head of the Indicator Unit at the Charles University Environment Center in Prague. He is a member of the Board of Society for Sustainable Living and the Czech Society for the Environment.

Bedrich Moldan held the historic position of the first Minister of the Environment of the Czech Republic and is now Director of the Charles University Environment Center in Prague.

Arthur Lyon Dahl served as Deputy Assistant Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and is now a consultant to UNEP and other international organizations. He lectures widely, and has published many scientific papers and books including Island Directory and The Eco Principle: Ecology and Economics in Symbiosis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Island Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1597261319
• ISBN 13: 9781597261319
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Éditeur: Hák Tomás, Moldan Bedrich, Dahl Arthur Lyon
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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