Sustainability Indicators: A Scientific Assessment

Title Page......Page 6
Copyright Page......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures, Tables, Boxes and Appendices......Page 12
Foreword: Finding the Right Indicators for Policymaking......Page 18
Preface......Page 24
Acknowledgments......Page 28
Ch. 1: Challenges to Sustainability Indicators......Page 30
Part I: Cross-Cutting Issues......Page 54
Ch. 2: Meeting Conceptual Challenges......Page 56
Ch. 3: Identifying Methodological Challenges......Page 78
Ch. 4: Ensuring Policy Relevance......Page 94
Part II: General Approaches......Page 110
Ch. 5: Indicators: Boring Statistics or the Key to Sustainable Development?......Page 112
Ch. 6: Sustainability Indicators: An Economist\'s View......Page 126
Ch. 7: The Institutional Dimension of Sustainable Development......Page 136
Part III: Methodological Aspects......Page 154
Ch. 8: Frameworks for Environmental Assessment and Indicators at the EEA......Page 156
Ch. 9: Frameworks for Policy Integration Indicators, for Sustainable Development, and for Evaluating Complex Scientific Evidence......Page 174
Ch. 10: Integrated Assessment and Indicators......Page 192
Ch. 11: Qualitative System Sustainability Index: A New Type of Sustainability Indicator......Page 206
Part IV: System and Sectoral Approaches......Page 218
Ch. 12: Indicators of Natural Resource Use and Consumption......Page 222
Ch. 13: Indicators to Measure Decoupling of Environmental Pressure from Economic Growth......Page 240
Ch. 14: Geobiosphere Load: Proposal for an Index......Page 252
Ch. 15: Sustainable Development and the Use of Health and Environment Indicators......Page 266
Ch. 16: Biodiversity Indicators......Page 278
Ch. 17: Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production (HANPP) as an Indicator for Pressures on Biodiversity......Page 300
Part V: Case Studies......Page 318
Ch. 18: The Development of UK Sustainable Development Indicators: Making Indicators Work......Page 322
Ch. 19: Developing Tools for the Assessment of Sustainable Development in teh Province of Brabant, the Netherlands......Page 338
Ch. 20: Sustainability Assessment Indicators: Development and Practice in China......Page 358
Ch. 21: Core Set of UNEP GEO Indicators Among Global Environmental Indices, Indicators, and Data......Page 372
Ch. 22: Further Work Needed to Develop Sustainable Development Indicators......Page 380
Ch. 23: The Yale and Columbia Universities\' Environmental Sustainability Index 2005......Page 390
Annex: Menu of Selected Sustainable Development Indicators......Page 398
Contributors......Page 418
SCOPE Series List......Page 424
Index......Page 430