Main Title |
Sustainability indicators : a scientific assessment / |
Other Authors |
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Publisher |
Island Press, |
Year Published |
2007 |
OCLC Number |
74569191 |
ISBN |
9781597261302; 1597261300; 9781597261319; 1597261319 |
Subjects |
Environmental indicators ;
Sustainable development--Evaluation ;
Environmental monitoring--Evaluation ;
Natuurbehoud ;
Natuurbeschermingswet ;
Natuurwetenschappen ;
Natuurbeheer ;
Umweltindikator ;
Nachhaltigkeit ;
Methode ;
Desenvolvimento sustentável ;
Monitoramento ambiental ;
Sustentabilidade (indicadores) ;
Nachhaltige Entwicklung ;
Desenvolvimento sustentâavel
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Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
ELBM |
GE140.S88 2007 |
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AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH |
11/19/2012 |
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Collation |
xxvii, 413 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
"UNEP ; ICSU ; European Environment Agency ; IHDP." Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents Notes |
1. Challenges to sustainability indicators -- Part I: Crosscutting Issues -- Chapter 2. Meeting conceptual challenges -- Chapter 3. Identifying methodological challenges -- Chapter 4. Ensuring policy relevance -- Part II: General Approaches -- Chapter 5. Indicators: boring statistics or the key to sustainable development? -- Chapter 6. Sustainability indicators: an economist's view -- Chapter 7. The institutional dimension of sustainable development -- Part III: Methodological Aspects -- Chapter 8. Frameworks for environmental assessment and indicators at the EEA -- Chapter 9. Frameworks for policy integration indicators, sustainable development and for evaluating complex scientific evidence -- Chapter 10. Integrated assessment and indicators -- Chapter 11. Qualitative Systems Sustainability Index: A new type of sustainability indicators -- Part IV: System and Sectoral Approaches -- Chapter 12. Indicators of natural resource use and consumption -- Chapter 13. Indicators to measure decoupling of environmental pressure from economic growth -- Chapter 14. Geobiosphere load: proposal for an index -- Chapter 15. Sustainable development and the use of health-and-environment indicators -- Chapter 16. Biodiversity indicators -- Chapter 17. Human appropriation of net primary production (HANPP) as indicator for pressures on biodiversity -- Part V: Case Studies -- Chapter 18. The development of UK sustainable development indicators: making indicators work -- Chapter 19. Developing tools for the assessment of sustainable development in the province of Brabant, the Netherlands -- Chapter 20. Sustainability assessment indicators: development and practice in China -- Chapter 21. A Core set of UNEP/GEP Indicators amidst global environmental indices, indicators and data -- Chapter 22. Further work is needed to develop sustainable development indicators -- Chapter 23. The Yale and Columbia Universities' Environmental Sustainability Index 2005 -- Annex. Menu of Selected Sustainable Development Indicators -- List of Contributors -- SCOPE Series List -- SCOPE Executive Committee 2005-2008. |