Definition of indicators for environmentally sustainable development

Harger, J. Robin E.; Meyer, F.-M.

doi:10.1016/0045-6535(96)00194-4

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“…Many have attempted to accomplish an "objectively verifiable scientific measurement of sustainability" (Bell and Morse, 1999: 195). Most criteria or indicators attempt to integrate the different perspectives of stakeholders, and they are based on the fundamental 'scientific' principles of simplicity and quantification (Harger and Meyer, 1996). As Maclaren (1996) While these urban sustainability criteria or indicator systems are broadly applied as important tools (Shen et al, 2011: 26)…”

Section: Contextual Principles Of Sustainable Cities and Urban Sustaimentioning

confidence: 99%

Questioning Beliefs Surrounding Urban Sustainability: The Need for a Contextual Urban Model

Lee

2014

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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When discussing sustainable development at city level, local governance is one of the most important factors and cannot be excluded among the many important aspects; economics, technology, and environment, as urban sustainability involves multilevel governance and complex political features. Using the theory of contextualism founded by S. Pepper, this paper firstly considers the meaning of 'sustainable' and critiques the use and wider implications of the word 'sustainable' throughout as envisaged by contextualism. While highlighting how urban sustainability can be assessed, this paper critiques specific methods of assessing urban sustainability. It attempts to link the critical philosophy of contextualism to the concept of local governance in terms of urban management. It then looks into the contradictory aspect of these principles using the city of Curitiba as an example. However the model of the city of Curitiba proved difficult to assess, as there are far too many factors to consider. It is felt that this case study is of use as a demonstration of the potential importance of the contextual urban model. We believe it unlikely that this will be solved in the near future, but it is important to look at it and a solution to this contradiction should be aimed for.

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Section: Contextual Principles Of Sustainable Cities and Urban Sustaimentioning

confidence: 99%

Questioning Beliefs Surrounding Urban Sustainability: The Need for a Contextual Urban Model

Lee

2014

Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

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“…Some pragmatic considerations and properties of universal requirements for indicators taken from Harger and Meyer [15] and Gallopin [14] are: The indicator must be measurable otherwise it cannot get a value i.e. if something is not observable, it is not an indicator.…”

Section: Sustainability Assessment and Importance Of Indicatorsmentioning

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Finding sustainability indicators for information system assessment

Nyström

Mustaquim

2015

Proceedings of the 19th International Academic Mindtrek Conference

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Nowadays, the importance of sustainability is persuading novel shifts in everyday life. This diversity makes it significant and challenging for sustainability to be quantified and measured. While the existence of perfect sustainability indicators is relatively unreasonable, they have important pragmatic roles in quantification and measurement by bridging sustainability's three pillars. Information system (IS) and sustainability are popular research areas, which clearly reflect the divergent and multidimensional role of sustainability. Despite this importance, defining the right sustainability indicators for IS is imperceptible. In this paper, we have identified sustainability indicators for IS using previous theoretical frameworks where universal design (UD) and its advance concept were used. Followed by this, a framework of IS sustainability indicators were proposed. The indicators were shown in the form of a design space arrangement, which could play significant roles in assessing sustainability for IS.

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“…[48], a good indicator is responsive to external stimuli thus alerting the investigator to a problem before the problem grows too large and that a good indicator recognizes what needs to be done to remedy such a problem. Various authors have provided DQC for the selection of KSI [49][50][51][52][53][54].…”

Section: Indicators and Influence Factors For Sustainability Assessmementioning

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Indicators and Influence Factors for Sustainability Assessment of Inclusive Smart Innovation Clusters

Suresh¹,

James²,

Jegathambal³

2016

JGRE

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Abstract:A new manufacturing and business infrastructure industrial ecosystem model with the state-of-the art core infrastructure and smart applications in the form of inclusive smart innovation cluster is seen as a powerful tool to drive industrial symbiosis, economic, social and inclusive development. Essentially an integrated eco-industrial park, these clusters demonstrate applications of industrial ecology principles among the occupant units, besides promoting sustainable societies from economic, environmental and social perspectives. The holistic planning and development of these clusters from economic, environmental and social sustainability considerations or alternatively, the sustainability assessment of these clusters is highly complex. The research reported upon forms part of a larger study that aims to develop an integrated decision support system for sustainability assessment of inclusive smart innovation cluster. The paper discusses the conceptual model of the cluster and the need to establish context specific key indicators and influence factors from economic, environmental and social sustainability considerations. The paper proposes a structured methodology for development of key indicators and influence factors. The paper concludes by identifying a set of 184 key indicators and influence factors for comprehensive sustainability assessment of inclusive smart innovation cluster.Key words: Eco-industrial cluster and park, sustainability indicator and assessment, influence factors, smart development, sustainable infrastructure.

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Definition of indicators for environmentally sustainable development

Cited by 73 publications

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Questioning Beliefs Surrounding Urban Sustainability: The Need for a Contextual Urban Model

Questioning Beliefs Surrounding Urban Sustainability: The Need for a Contextual Urban Model

Finding sustainability indicators for information system assessment

Indicators and Influence Factors for Sustainability Assessment of Inclusive Smart Innovation Clusters

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