Sustainability Indicators

Measuring the Immeasurable?

by: Simon Bell - Stephen Morse

Author: Simon Bell, Stephen Morse

Publisher: Earthscan Ltd

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Format: Paperback / softback

Publication date: 01 January 1999

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ISBN: 185383498X ISBN 13: 9781853834981 This product is replaced by a new edition: Sustainability Indicators (1999)

Sustainability Indicators by Simon Bell - Stephen Morse

Set against the late-1990s trends in sustainability indicator development, the authors discuss the advantages of taking an holistic and subjective approach to ways of measuring sustainability. Top page

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This text addresses global interest in ways of measuring sustainability. The authors review the development and value of such sustainability indicators. Set against the late-1990s trends in sustainability indicator development, the authors discuss the advantages of taking an holistic and subjective approach. Building on practices such as the sustainable cities initiative, they describe a systemic approach to sustainability indicator development, and conclude by developing a series of questions for future development. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Earthscan Ltd

City: London

Pages: 192

More info: height 233 mm width 153 mm weight 298 gr

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC21) 333.7 Library of Congress Subject: Sustainable development

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Summary Sustainability Indicators Part I The bad application of good science?: sustainability and sustainability indicators; sustainability indicators in practice; indicators, cities, institutions and projects. Part II The application of realistic systemism?: paradigms and professionals; projects and sustainability indicators; a systematic approach to sustainability analysis. Part III Where next? humility and honesty: sustainability indicators - the rhetoric and the reality. Top page