A sustainability indicator for the Dutch environmental policy theme ‘Diffusion’: cadmium accumulation in soil

Gilbert, Alison J.; Feenstra, J.F.

doi:10.1016/0921-8009(94)90082-5

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“…Policy targets can be used to assess the effectiveness of management (see indicators developed by Adriaanse 1993). Other reference levels include sustainability criteria (e.g., Gilbert andFeenstra, 1994, Azar andothers 1996) and historical states (e.g., the AMOEBE) (Ten Brink and others 1991). A time series permits assessment as to whether the system is moving towards or away from the reference level.…”

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Indicators for Transboundary River Management

Lorenz¹,

Gilbert

Cofino

2001

Environmental Management

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/ The aim of this paper is to analyze the potential of indicators for integrated river basin management and to develop a set of indicators for the management of transboundary river basins. An indicator, comprising a variable or some aggregation of variables, describes a system or process such that it has significance beyond the face value of its components. Integrated river basin management takes into account policies and measures for the multifunctional use of rivers on a catchment scale and associated institutional changes. Indicators are useful instruments for this process for two reasons. Firstly, they meet the information need of policyand decision-makers. Secondly, indicators can be used to structure the definition and description of information needs and collection of information between the different international, institutional, and sectoral management levels. The development of indicators involves a number of steps: definition of aim, construction of conceptual model, selection of variables, comparison with selection criteria, database assessment, and indicator selection. In this paper these steps are discussed and specified for integrated river basin management. This results in a set of indicators describing the pressure to the river, the state of the river ecosystem, the impact to goods and services provided by the river, and the societal response. The proposed set of indicators measured at a river basin scale provides integrated information on the use and supply of goods and services, underlying cause-effect relationships and possible trade-offs and their spatial distribution (e.g., upstream versus downstream). Furthermore, we propose a division of tasks and responsibilities for river basin management with regard to the development of indicators, data collection, and their application in decision-making.Throughout history, human use of goods and service provided by rivers has changed them dramatically. These changes have impacted the river ecosystem, which is expressed by a reduction of species diversity and abundance (Wolff 1978, Admiraal and others 1993, Tittizer and Krebs 1996 and the supply of goods and services, such as drinking water production (RIWA 1997, Ietswaart andVan Dijk 1996), fisheries (Lelek 1989, IKSR 1993, and recreation. The cause-effect relationships underlying these changes are spatially and temporally displaced due to the unidirectional flow from the catchment to the river mouth (Burns 1991, Petts 1994. Policy-makers and water management bodies face the challenge of managing the complex spatial and temporal cause-effect relationships in watersheds and coping with conflicting interests in order to attain a more equitable and sustainable situation than is presently the case. This needs for an all-encompassing approach, and hence concepts such as integrated or comprehensive river basin management have been developed (Downs and Gregory 1991, De Jong and others 1994). River basin management needs practical instruments to implement such concepts in practice and to develop...

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“…Alternative futures can be assessed in terms of how well each scenario moves the system towards a desired state. Gilbert and Feenstra (1994) developed a sustainability indicator for cadmium accumulation in soil and demonstrated the power of such a combination of indicator, simulation modeling, scenario analysis, and reference levels. …”

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Indicators for Transboundary River Management

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Cofino

2001

Environmental Management

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“…Outras tentativas interessantes no desenvolvimento de índices para avaliar a sustentabilidade de países foram publicadas em importantes revistas internacionais (PEARSE; ATKINSON, 1993;GILBERT;FEENSTRA, 1994;NILSSON;BERGSTRÖM, 1995;AZAR et al, 1996;STOCKHAMMER et al, 1997;BICKNELL et al, 1998;NEUMAYER, 2001;BALOCCOA et al, 2004;STEINBORN;SVIREZHEV, 2000;MOSER, 1996;KROTSCHECK;NARODOSLAWSKY, 1996;BARRERA;SALDÍVAR, 2002), mas esses índices são pouco utilizados pela comunidade científica, devido ao elevado nível de manipulação de dados, exigindo muito tempo, grande conhecimento da ferramenta e de como obter os dados primários, ponderação dos dados e mudança de unidades.…”

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Índices versus indicadores: precisões conceituais na discussão da sustentabilidade de países

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Oficialmente, o conceito de sustentabilidade foi introduzido no encontro internacional The World Conservation Strategy (IUCN et al., 1980). A partir desta data, esse conceito passou a ser empregado com maior freqüência, assumindo dimensões econômicas, sociais e ambientais, buscando embasar uma nova forma de desenvolvimento. O termo sustentabilidade foi bem explicado pela primeira vez dentro de um estudo realizado pela Comissão Mundial sobre Meio Ambiente das Nações Unidas, mais conhecido como Relatório Brundtland, que o define da seguinte maneira: "é o desenvolvimento que satisfaz as necessidades atuais sem comprometer a habilidade das futuras gerações em satisfazer suas necessidades" (WECD, 1987). Neste relatório, entre outras coisas, chegou-se à conclusão de que era necessária uma mudança de base no enfoque do desenvolvimento, já que o planeta e todos seus sistemas ecológicos estão sofrendo graves e irreversíveis impactos negativos.A idéia de desenvolver indicadores para avaliar a sustentabilidade surgiu na Conferência Mundial sobre o Meio Ambiente -Rio 92, conforme registrado no capítulo 40 da Agenda 21:

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“…For example, two scholars, Gilbert and Feenstra (1992) According to some other scholars (Atkisson, et al,1997;Maclaren, 1996b;Hart, 1999), good sustainability indicators should be relevant, valid, consistent, reliable, comparable, measurable and comprehensive.…”

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A Model for Assessing the Level of Tourism Impacts and Sustainability of Coastal Cities

Vehbi¹

2012

Strategies for Tourism Industry - Micro and Macro Perspectives

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A sustainability indicator for the Dutch environmental policy theme ‘Diffusion’: cadmium accumulation in soil

Cited by 50 publications

References 7 publications

Indicators for Transboundary River Management

Indicators for Transboundary River Management

Índices versus indicadores: precisões conceituais na discussão da sustentabilidade de países

A Model for Assessing the Level of Tourism Impacts and Sustainability of Coastal Cities

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