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An overview of sustainability assessment methodologies

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Title An overview of sustainability assessment methodologies
 
Creator SINGH, RK
MURTY, HR
GUPTA, SK
DIKSHIT, AK
 
Subject sustainable development
sustainability indicators
index
composite index
ratings
decision-making
indicators
index
life
performance
industry
 
Description Sustainability indicators and composite index are increasingly recognised as a useful tool for policy making and public communication in conveying information on countries and corporate performance in fields such as environment, economy, society, or technological improvement. By visualizing phenomena and highlighting trends, sustainability indicators simplify, quantify, analyse and communicate otherwise complex and complicated information. There are number of initiatives working on indicators and frameworks for sustainable development (SD). This article provides an overview various sustainability indices applied in policy practice. The paper also compiles the information related to sustainability indices formulation strategy, scaling, normalisation, weighting and aggregation methodology. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
 
Publisher ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
 
Date 2011-10-13T21:03:56Z
2011-12-15T09:16:14Z
2011-10-13T21:03:56Z
2011-12-15T09:16:14Z
2009
 
Type Review
 
Identifier ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS,9(2)189-212
1470-160X
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2008.05.011
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/13850
http://hdl.handle.net/100/3058
 
Language en