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When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets

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Title When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets
 
Creator Rosenstock, Todd S.
Lamanna, Christine
Chesterman, Sabrina
Hammond, James
Kadiyala, Suneetha
Luedeling, Eike
Shepherd, Keith D.
DeRenzi, Brian
Wijk, Mark T. van
 
Subject climate change
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Description Accountability and adaptive management of recent global agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement, will in part rely on the ability to track progress toward the social and environmental targets they set. Current metrics and monitoring systems, however, are not yet up to the task. We argue that there is an imperative to consider principles of coherence (what to measure), standardization (how to measure) and decision-relevance (why to measure) when designing monitoring schemes if they are to be practical and useful. New approaches that have the potential to match the necessary scale of monitoring, with sufficient accuracy and at reasonable cost, are emerging; although, they represent a significant departure from the historical norm in some cases. Iterative review and adaptation of analytical approaches and available technology will certainly be needed to continuously design ways to best track our progress.
 
Date 2017-06
2017-03-20T08:29:23Z
2017-03-20T08:29:23Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Rosenstock, T.S., Lamanna, C., Chesterman, S., Hammond, J., Kadiyala, S., Luedeling, E., Shepherd, K., DeRenzi, B. and Wijk, M.T. van. 2017. When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 26-27:54–61.
1877-3435
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/80425
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.02.010
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
Open Access
 
Format p. 54-61
 
Publisher Elsevier BV
 
Source Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability