Routledge Handbook of Sustainability Indicators

ISBN-13: 9781138674769 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 598 str.

Simon Bell; Stephen Morse

Opis

This handbook provides researchers and students with an overview of the field of sustainability indicators and indices (SIIs) as applied in the interdisciplianry field of sustainable development. The editors have sought to include views from the centre ground of SII development but also divergent views which represent some of the diverse, challenging and even edgy observations which are prominent in the wider field of environmental indicator thinking. The contributions in this handbook:

• Clearly set out the theoretical background and history of SIIs, their origins, roots and initial goals
• Expand on the disciplines and modalities employed to develop SIIs of various kinds
• Assess the various ways in which SII data are gathered and the availability (over space and time) and quality issues that surround them
• Explore the multiplex world of SIIs as expressed in agencies around the world, via examples of SSI practice and the lessons that have emerged from them.
• Critically review the progress that SIIs have made over the last thirty year
• Express the divergence of views which are held about the value of SIIs including differing views about their efficacy, efficiency and ethics
• Explore the frontier of contemporary SII thinking, reviewing anti/ post and systemic alternatives

This multidisciplinary and international Handbook will be of great interest to researchers, students and practitioners working in sustainability research and practice.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to the Book: Indicators and Post Truth Simon Bell and Stephen Morse  Section 1 Theory and History  2. Bellagio STAMP: Principles for sustainability assessment and measurement László Pintér, Peter Hardi, André Martinuzzi, Jon Hall  3. Contributions to the Evolving Theory and Practice of Indicators of Sustainability Arthur Lyon Dahl  4. Substantiating the rough consensus on concept of sustainable development as point of departure for indicator development Walter J.V. Vermeulen  5. From Crises and Gurus to Science and Metrics: Yale’s Environmental Performance Index and the Rise of Data-Driven Policymaking Daniel C. Esty and John W. Emerson  6. The Limits of Sustainability and Resilience Frameworks: Lessons from agri-food system research Sarah Rotz and Evan Fraser  7. Lessons from the History of GDP in the Effort to Create Better Indicators of Prosperity, Well-being, and Happiness Robert Costanza, Maureen Hart, Ida Kubiszewski, Steve Posner, and John Talberth  8. A systems-theoretical perspective on sustainable development and indicators Paul-Marie Boulanger  Section 2 Methods  9. World views, interests and indicator choices Joachim H. Spangenberg  10. Sustainability indicators and certification schemes for the built environment Catalina Turcu  11. Measuring water scarcity and water consumption Jonathan Chenoweth  12. Participatory approaches for the development and evaluation of Sustainability Indicators Simon Bell and Stephen Morse  13. Environmental governance indicators and indices in support of policy-making Dora Almassy and Laszlo Pinter  14. Environmentally Sustainable National Income, an Indicator Roefie Hueting and Bart de Boer  15. Green Accounting: Balancing Environment and Economy Peter Bartelmus  16. Ecological Footprint Accounts: Principles Mathis Wackernagel, Alessandro Galli, Laurel Hanscom, David Lin, Laetitia Mailhes and Tony Drummond  Section 3 Agency Experience  17. Governing by Numbers: China, Viet Nam, and Malaysia’s Adaptation of the Environmental Performance Index Angel Hsu  18. The Human Sustainable Development Index Giangiacomo Bravo  19. The Environmental Performance Index: does this reflect reality? Elisabeth Conrad and Louis F Cassar  20. Sustainability-related indicators developed for governments Lucas Reijnders  21. Sustainable development indicators Finland: Going from large descriptive sets to target oriented actively used indicators Ulla Rosenström  22. The Socio-Ecological System (SES) Approach to Sustainable Development Indicators Gilberto C. Gallopin  23. UNEP and the CSD Process for Sustainable Development Indicators Arthur Lyon Dahl  24. Prospects for Standardising Sustainable Urban Development Simon Joss and Yvonne Rydin  25. Stakeholder-driven initiatives using sustainability indicators Ana Rita Domingues, Rodrigo Lozano and Tomás B. Ramos  26. How Evil is Aggregation? Lessons from the Dashboard of Sustainability Jochen Jesinghaus  27. Criteria and indicators to audit the performance of complex, multi-functional forest landscapes Dwi Amalia Sari, Chris Margules, Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono and Jeffrey Sayer  28. The devil is in the detail! Sustainability assessment of African smallholder farming Wytze Marinus, Esther Ronner, Gerrie W. J. van de Ven, Fred Kanampiu, Samuel Adjei-Nsiah and Ken E. Giller  Section 4 Critique of Sustainability Indicators and Indices  29. Sustainable agricultural intensification and measuring the immeasurable: Do we have a choice? Philip Grabowski, Mark Musumba, Cheryl Palm and Sieglinde Snapp  30. Relevance – A neglected feature of sustainability indicators Svatava Janoušková, Tomáš Hák and Bedřich Moldan  31. Measurement Matters: Toward Data-Driven Environmental Policy-making Daniel C. Esty  32. Meta-evaluation of Sustainability Indicators: from organizational to national level Tomás B. Ramos and Sandra Caeiro  33. Ecological Footprint Accounts: Criticisms and Applications Mathis Wackernagel, Alessandro Galli, Laurel Hanscom, David Lin, Laetitia Mailhes and Tony Drummond  In Conclusion  34. Where next? Simon Bell and Stephen Morse