Performance Measurement for Sustainable Development: Compendium of Experts, Initiatives and Publications

Performance Measurement for Sustainable Development: Compendium of Experts, Initiatives and Publications
ISBN-10
1895536405
ISBN-13
9781895536409
Category
Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development
Pages
301
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Authors
International Institute for Sustainable Development, Péter Hardi, László Pintér

Description

A new field of integrated performance measurement is rapidly evolving, in which sustainability is defined in terms of contextually relevant economic, environmental, and social indicators. There is a corresponding international momentum for progress on sustainability-related performance measurement, with a requirement for the development of methodologies and indicator sets that are comparable across various scales and sectors. This publication is a compendium of indicator initiatives and publications which is intended to provide up-to-date and essential information needed by practitioners to establish partnerships and orient themselves in this field. The section on experts and initiatives is arranged geographically by continent, with separate subsections for Canada, the United States, United Nations, and other initiatives with a global mandate. Information given for each initiative or expert includes project and contact name, addresses (including electronic mail) and phone numbers, description of initiative, and publications if any. The bibliographic section is arranged alphabetically by author under topics including theory and methods of sustainable development indicators, ecosystem and ecoregion-based indicators, geographically based indicators, and livelihood system indicators. Includes author, subject, and organisation index, and a list of acronyms.

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