Measuring Sustainability
by Bell, Simon; Morse, StephenFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-05-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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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 ' 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
Author Biography
Stephen Morse is Reader in development studies at the University of Reading in the UK.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures, Tables and Boxes | p. vii |
| Preface | p. x |
| Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
| List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | p. xv |
| The Brave New Frontier of Sustainability: Where are We? | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| What is sustainable development? | p. 2 |
| Gauging progress | p. 13 |
| Multiple perspectives | p. 18 |
| Public participation: talk and action | p. 22 |
| Summary | p. 27 |
| Sustainability Indicators: A Brief Review | p. 29 |
| Introduction | p. 29 |
| Indicators of sustainable development | p. 30 |
| Integration of sustainable development indicators | p. 39 |
| The reference condition | p. 46 |
| Using indicators of sustainable development | p. 48 |
| Summary | p. 57 |
| Systemic Sustainability Analysis and Prospective | p. 58 |
| Introduction | p. 58 |
| Personal background to the field work | p. 60 |
| The importance of the subjective | p. 65 |
| Background to CAMP Malta | p. 66 |
| Technical specification for SSA | p. 71 |
| Familiarizing the Maltese SSA team | p. 74 |
| What are SSA and SPSA and how are they different? | p. 79 |
| SSA and Blue Plan approaches | p. 86 |
| Doing SPSA: Some Reflective Experience | p. 91 |
| Introduction | p. 91 |
| Find out how things are: reflection | p. 93 |
| Understand the context for sustainability indicators: reflection/connection | p. 97 |
| Gather the stakeholders in the sustainability indicator process: reflection/connection | p. 100 |
| Get clear on methods: connection | p. 105 |
| Identify the stakeholder coalition: connection | p. 110 |
| Identify and agree the main SIs: connection/modelling | p. 114 |
| Identify and agree the band of equilibrium: modelling | p. 114 |
| Develop the AMOEBA in a collaborative manner: modelling/doing | p. 114 |
| Think about how the AMOEBA extends over time: modelling/doing | p. 123 |
| Unpack and understand the AMOEBA--futures: modelling/doing | p. 123 |
| Responding to 'good' and 'bad' AMOEBA--policy implications: doing | p. 126 |
| Making changes to the SI mix in the light of practice: doing/reflecting | p. 131 |
| New Frontiers of Practice | p. 135 |
| Introduction | p. 135 |
| New ways of thinking about sustainability indicators | p. 139 |
| Other dimensions to sustainability indicators: a new synthesis (Kolb learning cycle) | p. 143 |
| Applying the learning cycle in sustainable development | p. 157 |
| Summary | p. 160 |
| The End of a Journey? | p. 162 |
| Systemic and Prospective Sustainability Analysis (SPSA) in Malta | p. 166 |
| Notes | p. 174 |
| References | p. 177 |
| Index | p. 187 |
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