Framework and suggested indicators to measure sustainable development
Author: Joint UNECE/Eurostat/OECD Task Force on Measuring Sustainable Development
Date: 2013
Abstract: There is a widespread understanding that society needs a better statistical ‘compass’ to shift emphasis from measuring economic phenomena to measuring sustainable development. The latter concept entails making choices between using resources to maximise current human well-being or preserving resources for future use; or between maximising the human well-being of one country at the expense of others. In addition to prevalent macroeconomic indicators such as GDP, sustainable development indicators pay due attention to current human well-being, including its distribution across and within countries, as well as to the intergenerational aspects of human well-being. The concept of sustainable development focuses, among other things, on the depletion of natural resources, climate change and other factors that affect society in the long run.
Tags: Case studies, Criteria for Indicator Selection, Environment, Impact, Indicator Framework, Outcomes, Sustainability, Sustainable development, Urban planning, Wellbeing,
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Date: 2013
Abstract: There is a widespread understanding that society needs a better statistical ‘compass’ to shift emphasis from measuring economic phenomena to measuring sustainable development. The latter concept entails making choices between using resources to maximise current human well-being or preserving resources for future use; or between maximising the human well-being of one country at the expense of others. In addition to prevalent macroeconomic indicators such as GDP, sustainable development indicators pay due attention to current human well-being, including its distribution across and within countries, as well as to the intergenerational aspects of human well-being. The concept of sustainable development focuses, among other things, on the depletion of natural resources, climate change and other factors that affect society in the long run.
Tags: Case studies, Criteria for Indicator Selection, Environment, Impact, Indicator Framework, Outcomes, Sustainability, Sustainable development, Urban planning, Wellbeing,
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