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Sustainability assessment and indicators : tools in a decision-making strategy for sustainable development
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Abstract
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Recognizing the urgent need for sustainability, we argue that to move beyond the rhetoric and to actually realize sustainable development, it must be considered as a decision-making strategy. We demonstrate that sustainability assessment and sustainability indicators can be powerful decision-supporting tools that foster sustainable development by addressing three sustainability decision-making challenges: interpretation, information-structuring, and influence. Particularly, since the 1990s many substantial and often promising sustainability assessment and sustainability indicators efforts are made. However, better practices and a broader shared understanding are still required. We aim to contribute to that objective by adopting a theoretical perspective that frames SA and SI in the context of sustainable development as a decision-making strategy and that introduces both fields along several essential aspects in a structured and comparable manner. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Sustainability
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Publication
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2014
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ISSN
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2071-1050
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DOI
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10.3390/SU6095512
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Volume/pages
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6
:9
(2014)
, p. 5512-5534
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ISI
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000342902000001
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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