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Sustainability Indicators in Practice
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Sustainability Indicators in Practice

by Agnieszka Latawiec, Dorice Agol
January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
271 pages
9h 23m
English
De Gruyter Open
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1 What Are Sustainability Indicators For?

Rachael Garrett and Agnieszka E Latawiec

1.1 Introduction

Indicators are critical to both scientific inquiry and policy development in complex systems. They are concise information systems that provide quantitative and qualitative information about the condition and trajectory of a system and why certain trends occur in specified contexts (Bell and Morse, 2008). To date a wide range of sustainability indicators have been proposed by different authors and organizations (Bell and Morse, 2008; Moldan et al., 2012). The selection and use of specific indicators from among these myriad choices depends on a range of factors, including values about the goals of such indicators and appropriate temporal and spatial ...

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ISBN: 9783110450675