A comprehensive index for a sustainable society: The SSI — the Sustainable Society Index

By Geurt Van de Kerk, Arthur Manuel. 2008

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

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In Building and Construction

1. Daniel W. O’Neill
2. Ishak Mohammed
3. Cecília Maria Villas Boas de Almeida
4. D. Huisingh
5. Michael John Jones
6. Feni Agostinho
7. Biagio Fernando Giannetti
8. Habib M. Alshuwaikhat

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Ishak Mohammed
2. Cecília Maria Villas Boas de Almeida
3. D. Huisingh
4. Daniel W. O’Neill
5. Michael John Jones
6. Feni Agostinho
7. Biagio Fernando Giannetti
8. Habib M. Alshuwaikhat

Citations in the corpus

• Beyond GDP: Classifying Alternative Measures for Progress (2011, background): “factoring in human needs of future generations, Van de Kerk and Manuel (2008) use the ideas of sustainable development to develop the Sustainable Society Index (SSI).”
• Sustainability Matters in National Development Visions—Evidence from Saudi Arabia’s Vision for 2030 (2017, methodology): “These sustainable society indicators (see Figure 1) are employed to measure the sustainability substance of the 2030 Vision and the 2020 NTP. Source: Adapted from Van de Kerk and Manuel [10].”
• Measuring progress in the degrowth transition to a steady state economy (2012, background): “The Environmental Performance Index (Esty et al., 2008) and Sustainable Society Index (van de Kerk and Manuel, 2008) are good examples.”
• Accounting for the environment: Towards a theoretical perspective for environmental accounting and reporting (2010, background): “Sustainable development itself is a subset of a sustainable society, for example, Van de Kerk and Manuel (2008) in a wide ranging article develop a comprehensive index for a sustainable society.”
• A review of limitations of GDP and alternative indices to monitor human wellbeing and to manage eco-system functionality (2015, methodology): “With amore simplified structure, the SSI (Sustainable Society Index) also combines environmental issues with economic, social and institutional components departing from 21 indicators divided into three categories: Economic, Environmental and Human wellbeing (Van de Kerk and Manuel, 2008).”