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Measuring Sustainability: Learning From Doing - Softcover

Bell, Simon; Morse, Stephen

 
9781853838439: Measuring Sustainability: Learning From Doing
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1853838438 ISBN 13: 9781853838439
Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

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Measuring the sustainability of development is crucial to achieving it, and is one of the most actively studied issues in the area. To date, most studies of measurements or indicators have been largely theoretical.

However, this book, a follow-on to Bell and Morse's highly influential Sustainability Indicators (1999), presents valuable practical advice on how to develop measurements that will work in real-life development contexts. It describes and analyses how to derive, validate and apply indicators in the course of an actual development project - in this case the Mediterranean Action Plan in Malta.

The authors explain the trade-offs and constraints involved and how it is possible to combine the open-ended and flexible perspectives of sustainability with the more linear processes and fixed targets of specific projects through the use of pragmatic and reflective methodologies.

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About the Author

Simon Bell is Senior Lecturer in information systems at the Open University.
Stephen Morse is Reader in development studies at the University of Reading and co-author of Science, Agriculture and Research: A Compromised Participation (Earthscan, 2002).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1853838438
ISBN 13 
9781853838439
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
206