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Other Organization
Indicators
International
Institute for Sustainble Development
Consultative
Group on Sustainable Development Indicators
This is a small group, supported by the Wallace
Global Fund and with a secretariat at IISD, whose mission is to promote
cooperation, better coordination, and strategizing among key individuals
and institutions working in the area of developing and using sustainable
development indicators. A recent product of the group has been the Dashboard
of Sustainability.
Who
is doing what?
ONLINE
COMPENDIUM OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INDICATOR INITIATIVES AND PUBLICATIONS
Information about the development and application
of indicators and measurements of sustainable development at global, national,
sub-national, regional, local and institutional levels.
How
do you do it?
The BELLAGIO
PRINCIPLES - Guidelines for practical
assessment of progress towards sustainable development.
Developed by an international group of measurement practitioners and researchers
from five continents, meeting in Bellagio, Italy in November
1996.
Basic principles concerning the starting point,
content, process and continuing capacity for assessing progress towards
sustainable development using indicators.
Assessing
Sustainable Development: Principles in Practice
Edited by Peter Hardi and Terrence Zdan
IISD, Winnepeg, 1997 - 166
p.
Case studies illustrating the Bellagio Principles.
To order or down-load as PDF: http://iisd1.iisd.ca/about/prodcat/perfrep.htm
Beyond
Delusion: Science and Policy Dialogue on Designing Effective Indicators
of Sustainable Development, 6-9 May
1999, San Jose Costa Rica
Joint Research
Center
Dashboard
of Sustainability
- Latest version May 2003
A graphic
presentation of indicators of sustainable development being developed
by the JRC
and other partners with the cooperation of the Consultative Group on Indicators
of Sustainable Development (see upper).
The "Dashboard
of Sustainability" is a free, non-commercial software which allows
to present complex relationships between economic, social and environmental
issues in a highly communicative format aimed at decision-makers and citizens
interested in Sustainable Development. For the WSSD, the CGSDI published
the "From Rio to Jo'burg" Dashboard, with over 60 indicators
for more than 200 countries.
http://esl.jrc.it/envind/dashbrds.htm
World Resources
Institute
Recent
indicator publications:
REEFS
AT RISK: A Map-Based Indicator of Threats to the World's Coral Reefs
by Dirk Bryant, Lauretta Burke, John McManus and Mark Spaulding. 56 p.
WRI/ICLARM/WCMC/UNEP. World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.,
1998
Web version: http://www.wri.org/wri/reefsatrisk/reefrisk.html
Resource
Flows: The Material Basis of Industrial Economies
Albert Adriaanse et al.
World Resources Institute, Wuppertal Institute, Netherlands Ministry of
Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, National Institute for Environmental
Studies (Japan).
World Resources Institute, Washington, 1997
- 66 p.
Web: http://www.wristore.com/wristore/
resflowmatba.html
Environmental
Indicators:
A Systematic Approach to Measuring and Reporting on Environmental Policy
Performance in the Context of Sustainable Development
Allen Hammond et al.
World Resources Institute, Washington, 1995
- 53 p.
Web: http://www.wristore.com/wristore/enin.html
Environmental
Indicators for Latin America and the Caribbean:
Toward Land-Use Sustainability
Manuel Winograd
World Resources Institute, Washington, n.d. - 83 p.
Web: http://www.wristore.com/wristore/eninforlatam.html
(see also the CIAT/UNEP
Environmental and Sustainability Indicators project below)
WWF
WWF Living Planet Index
WWF Living
Planet Report - 2000 includes
the Living Planet Index measuring the natural wealth of the earth's forests,
freshwater ecosystems, and oceans and coasts.
http://www.panda.org/livingplanet/lpr00/lpindex.cfm
IUCN
IUCN - The World Conservation Union
Assessing
Progress Towards Sustainability:
http://www.iucn.org/themes/eval/sustassess.htm
Sustainability
Assessment Method, IUCN Monitoring and Evaluation Initiative
May 2001: Part
A, B
& C
Redefining Progress
Ecological
Footprint of Nations
(pdf) - November 2002
Released by Redifinding
Progress, Ecological Footprint accounts provide a conservative estimate
of humanity's pressure on global ecosystems. They represent the biologically
productive area required to produce the food and wood people consume,
to supply space for infrastructure, and to absorb the greenhouse gas carbon
dioxide (CO2) emitted from burning fossil fuels.
Redefining
Progress - General Progress Indicator
Why Bigger Isn't Better: The Genuine Progress
Indicator --1999 Update. Redefining Progress, Oakland, California,
1999.
http://www.rprogress.org/pubs/gpi1999/gpi1999.html
WEF
Global Leaders of Tomorrow Environment Task Force
Environmental Sustainability Index
- January 2001
http://www.ciesin.org/indicators/ESI/index.html
Prepared in collaboration with the Yale Center for
Environmental Law and Policy, and the Columbia University Center for International
Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).
Compares 122 countries for environmental sustainability
using 22 core indicators with 67 variables.
Report (2001): http://www.ciesin.org/indicators/ESI/downloads.html
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