Sustainability Assessment: Criteria and ProcessesRoutledge, 17. 6. 2013 - Počet stran: 268 Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need appropriately designed public processes; guidance on the weighing of alternatives, trade-offs and compromises; a supportive policy framework; suitable tools and inspiring examples. Drawing from transdisciplinary theory and practical case experience, the book addresses these matters and many of the surrounding controversies. While sustainability assessment must always be adjusted to particular circumstances, the generic approach set out in this book is applicable virtually anywhere. |
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Stumbling Towards Sustainability Assessment | 1 |
Thirtysome Years of Environmental Assessment | 14 |
The Essentials of the Concept | 38 |
Sustainability in Illustrative Initiatives | 66 |
Sustainability Requirements as the Basis for Decision Making | 88 |
Facing Conflict and Compromise | 122 |
Designing Sustainability Assessment Regimes | 142 |
Applying Sustainabilitybased Criteria in Significance Determinations and Other Common Assessment Judgements | 165 |
References | 189 |
Selected Conceptions of Sustainability
| 206 |
Selected Sustainability Assessment Approaches Criteria and Processes
| 217 |
The Basic Sustainability Assessment Decision Criteria
| 235 |
The Basic Sustainability Assessment Tradeoff Rules
| 237 |
The Basic Design Components for Formal Sustainability Assessment Processes
| 239 |
Assessment Process Decisions that Should Involve Sustainabilitybased Evaluation
| 245 |
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