Measuring the Immeasurable: A Survey of Sustainability Indices

By Christoph Böhringer, Patrick Jochem. 2007

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Applying the SDGs to Cities: Business as Usual or a New Dawn? (2018, background): “One reason is the historic development of indicator use in cities, where the monitoring of environmental degradation (in this case indicators under goal 6 and 15) have received a lot of attention since the 1960s when industrialisation started to have a major impact on people and environmental awaren”
Comparing the sustainability of local and global food products in Europe (2017, neutral): “Aggregating the indicators in the form of a weighted arithmetic mean has the advantage of simplicity for communication to decision-makers (Van Asselt et al., 2015) and is often used for ranking countries in terms of their sustainability achievements (Böhringer and Jochem, 2007; Singh et al., 2009).”
On the Methodological Framework of Composite Indices: A Review of the Issues of Weighting, Aggregation, and Robustness (2018, background): “To be more precise, several reviews of composite indicators’ applications exist in the fields of sustainability (Bohringer and Jochem 2007; Singh et al. 2009, 2012; Pissourios 2013; Huang et al. 2015), the environment (Juwana et al.”
Indicator-based assessments of progress towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs): a case study from the Arab region (2017, background): “…Economic Welfare or the Inclusive Wealth Index) to track progress towards sustainable development, many of which have been reviewed elsewhere (Böhringer and Jochem 2007; Dahl 2012; Dasgupta et al. 2015; Managi 2016; Mayer 2008; Mori and Christodoulou 2012; Singh et al. 2009; United Nations…”
Global SDGs Assessments: Helping or Confusing Indicators? (2018, background): “Nowadays, there are many SD indicators and indices already developed and new ones certainly have yet to appear, for example, [25,26].”