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Appendix E: Sustainability Indicators
Appendix E: Sustainability Indicators
Pages 143-150
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. This assessment was followed by a collaborative effort on the part of statisticians in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
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While the work mentioned above was under way, the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development (UNCSD) revised its set of indicators in Indicators of Sustainable Development: Guidelines and Methodologies (UNCSD 2007)
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Re printed with permission of the United Nations. A large number of the capital stock, capital flow, and policy indicators dis cussed in these two recent reports can be found in OECD collections of data and indicators.
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This index was developed to quantitatively assess a country's national performance on a core set of 25 performance indicators tracked across ten policy categories, including environmental, public health, and ecosystem vitality. The index is used to gauge how closely countries meet environmental policy goals (Yale 2011)
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However, they also note its utility to gauge current environmental conditions and the likely future trajectory. Excessive narrowing of the range of indicators has the potential for negative unintended consequences, including masking potential trade-offs important to a decision.
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In the field of human health, there has been many advances in the modeling of infectious diseases using geographical information and similar advanced tracking tools, which can include the many indicators that are part of sustainability. The indicators are now being applied to environmental health by the integration of health, exposure, and hazard information (CDC 2010)
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Environmental justice is a growing concern, but review of the typical indicators used to characterize either social or environmental states suggest that there is a need to develop indicators specific to this concern. Environmental sustainability indicators will be derived directly from observations or analysis of observations (e.g., as a result of modeling)
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:A13. UNCSD (United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development)
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