Format:
1 online resource (269 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781844070503
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9781849772716
Note:
Intro -- Sustainability Assessment Criteria and Processes -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Beginnings: Stumbling Towards Sustainability Assessment -- Beginning in Labrador -- Specifying the higher test -- 2 Assessment: Thirty-some Years of Environmental Assessment -- Growing up in a difficult world -- Basic and more advanced approaches -- Development stages and growth trends -- Maturing assessment and emerging sustainability -- 3 Sustainability: The Essentials of the Concept -- A necessary and difficult idea -- Old sustainability -- Groundwork for a new sustainability -- The second coming of sustainability -- Debating the concept -- The essentials -- Initial implications for assessment regimes -- 4 Practice: Sustainability in Illustrative Initiatives -- Theory and practice -- Stories -- Lessons from the stories -- 5 Criteria: Sustainability Requirements as the Basis for Decision Making -- The need for decision criteria -- Requirements for progress towards sustainability -- Characteristics, strengths and limitations of the requirements as decision criteria -- 6 Trade-offs: Facing Conflict and Compromise -- Pursuing sustainability in a messy world -- Unavoidable trade-offs -- Trade-offs of substance and process -- Trade-off rules -- Beyond the rules -- 7 Processes: Designing Sustainability Assessment Regimes -- How versus what -- Basic process principles -- Components of a sustainability assessment law -- Transitions -- 8 Decisions: Applying Sustainability-based Criteria in Significance Determinations and Other Common Assessment Judgements -- Decisions and significance -- Applying sustainability-based criteria in significance judgements -- 9 Continuations: The Way Ahead -- Proliferation -- The fundamentals and the variations -- Getting there
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References -- Appendix 1: Selected Conceptions of Sustainability -- Appendix 2: Selected Sustainability Assessment Approaches, Criteria and Processes -- Appendix 3: The Basic Sustainability Assessment Decision Criteria -- Appendix 4: The Basic Sustainability Assessment Trade-off Rules -- Appendix 5: The Basic Design Components for Formal Sustainability Assessment Processes -- Appendix 6: Assessment Process Decisions that Should Involve Sustainability-based Evaluation -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Gibson, Bob Sustainability Assessment Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2005 ISBN 9781844070503
Language:
English
Keywords:
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