Lockie, Stewart (2001) Book Review: "Sustainability Indicators: measuring the immeasurable" by S. Bell and S. Morse, London, UK, Earthscan, 1999. ISBN: 1-85383-498-X. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 19 (2). pp. 171-172.

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Abstract

[Extract] Sustainability Indicators sets out to address a fundamental contradication at the heart of much contemporary planning and project appraisal. While sustainability indicators (SIs) are used to ascribe exact measures to the state of resources, pressures on those resources and management responses, sustainability itself is an immeasurable concept; a 'moving shadow'. This is not to say that SIs cannot be useful, but that their development, application and interpretaion, need to be incorporated in systemic and participatory processes that take more account of the subjective and fluid nature of sustainability.

Item ID:	31208
Item Type:	Article (Book Review)
ISSN:	1471-5465
Date Deposited:	24 Jan 2017 01:26
FoR Codes:	16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1608 Sociology > 160801 Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment @ 100%
SEO Codes:	96 ENVIRONMENT > 9606 Environmental and Natural Resource Evaluation > 960609 Sustainability Indicators @ 100%
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