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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
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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
...  OECD
 OECD
work on sustainable agriculture and the environment with
examples of indicators
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Environmental
Indicators for Agriculture Volume
3:
Methods and Results (E-book PDF Format)
OECD 2001, Code 512001011E1
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Environmental Indicators for Agriculture
Volume 2: Issues and Design -- The York Workshop
OECD Code (51 1999 05 1P) ISBN 92-64-17041-3, 213 pages,
September 1999.
Available in French:
Indicateurs environnementaux pour l'agriculture
Volume 2: Questions clés et conception -- Le
séminaire de York
OCDE Cote (51 1999 05 2P) ISBN 92-64-27041-8, 221 pages, Septembre
1999
Agreement on a set of agri-environmental indicators for
policy use is on the verge of being accepted by OECD countries. To
be used by governments and other stakeholders for policy analysis,
these indicators will eventually provide a series of key benchmarks
to monitor change, and are potentially applicable to non-member OECD
countries.
These books are part of a series of publications entitled Environmental
Indicators for Agriculture:
* Volume 1: Concepts and Framework, was initially
released in 1997.
* Volume 3: Methods and Results, published in 2001,
provides, for the first time, series of key agri-environmental indicators,
across OECD countries, for the areas listed.
* Volume 4: to be published in 2001,
will report work on the use of
indicators in policy analysis.
OECD
work on Environmental Performance, Indicators and Outlooks with
examples of indicators
The publications can be ordered from the OECD Bookshop
at: http://oecdpublications.gfi-nb.com/
cgi-bin/oecdbookshop.storefront
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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
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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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