Measuring sustainability : learning by doing / Simon Bell and Stephen Morse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Simon.

Contributor:

Morse, Stephen, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Economic development--Environmental aspects.

Economic development.

Environmental indicators.

Physical Description:

xvi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications Ltd, 2003.

Summary:

Measuring the sustainability of development is crucial to achieving it and is one of the most actively studied subjects in the field. To date, most studies of measurements or indicators have been largely theoretical. This book presents valuable practical advice on how to develop measurements that will work in real-life development contexts. It describes and analyzes how to derive, validate and apply indicators in the course of an actual development project b" in this case the Mediterranean Action Plan. The authors explain the trade-offs and constraints involved and how to combine the more open-ended and flexible perspectives of sustainability with the linear process and fixed targets of specific projects, demonstrating the pragmatic and reflexive methodology involved

Contents:

The brave new frontier of sustainability; where are we?

Introduction

What is sustainable development?

Gauging progress

Multiple perspectives

Public participation: talk and action

Sustainability indicators: a brief review

Indicators of sustainable development

Integration of sustainable development indicators

The reference condition

Using indicators of sustainable development

Systemic sustainability analysis (ssa) and prospective

Personal background to the field work

The importance of the subjective

Background to camp malta

Technical specification for ssa

Familiarising the maltese spsa team

What are ssa and spsa are how are they different?

Ssa and blue plan approaches

Systemic sustainability analysis (ssa) and prospective

Doing spsa - some reflective experience

Stage 1. find out how things are: reflection

Stage 2. understand the context for sustainability indicators: reflection/connection

Stage 3. gathering the stakeholders in the sustainability indicator process: reflection/connection

Stage 4. get clear on methods: connection

Stage 5. identify the stakeholder coalition: connection

Stage 6. identify and agree the main sustainability indicators: connection/modeling

Stage 7. identify and agree the band of equilibrium: modeling

Stage 8. develop the amoeba in a collaborative fashion: modeling/doing

Stage 9. think about how the amoeba extends over time: modeling/doing

Stage 10. unpack and understand the amoeba: futures modeling/doing

Stage 11. responding to good and bad amoeba: policy implications. doing

Stage 12. making changes in the sustainability indicator mix in the light of practice: doing/reflecting

New frontiers of practice

New ways of thinking about sustainability indicators

Other dimensions to sustainability indicators: a new synthesis (Kolb learning cycle)

Applying the learning cycle in sustainable development.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-186) and index.

ISBN:

185383839X

1853838438

OCLC:

50715616