Making ‘dirty’ nations look clean? The nation state and the problem of selecting and weighting indices as tools for measuring progress towards sustainability

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An adaptive learning process for developing and applying sustainability indicators with local communities (2006, background): “As a result, the ESI has been thoroughly critiqued for ignoring local contextual issues ( Morse and Fraser, 2005 ).”
Characterising the nature of household vulnerability to climate variability: empirical evidence from two regions of Ghana (2013, background): “…data at the national level could mask significant local-level variability in terms of access to assets and entitlements (Eakin and Bojorquez-Tapia 2008) because of the problem of aggregation that makes particular poor regions seem less vulnerable than they really are (see Morse and Fraser 2005).”
Review of sustainability indices and indicators: Towards a new City Sustainability Index (CSI) (2012, background): “The ESI downplays or ignores transboundary or spillover effects of northern countries' unsustainable consumption (Morse and Fraser, 2005).”