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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
COMPOSITE INDEXES
DECISION-MAKING
INDICATORS
LIFE
PERFORMANCE
INDUSTRY
 
Description Sustainability indicators and composite index are gaining lot of importance and increasingly recognized as a powerful tool for policy making and public communication in providing information on countries and corporate performance in fields such as environment, economic, social, or technological improvement. By conceptualizing phenomena and highlighting trends, sustainability indicators simplify, quantify, analyze and communicate the complex and complicated information. There are number of initiatives exist on indicators and frameworks for sustainable development. This article provides an overview various sustainability indices applied in sustainability domain. The paper also compiles the information related to sustainability indices formulation strategy, scaling, normalization, weighting and aggregation methodology. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
 
Publisher ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
 
Date 2014-10-15T07:58:47Z
2014-10-15T07:58:47Z
2012
 
Type Article
 
Identifier ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS, 15(1)281-299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.01.007
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/handle/100/14625
 
Language en