| | Sustainable Community Indicators - Trainer's Workshop |
| | 0,58 | | MB |
| | 205 | | stron |
| | 4794 | | ID | UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY |
| | 1998 | | rok |
| | Table of Contents |
| | Introduction . 8 |
| | How to Set Up . 9 |
| | Introductory Exercise .10 |
| | Optional Exercises 12 |
| | Section 1 - What is sustainability? . 14 |
| | A new way to look at the world 16 |
| | Training workshop agenda .18 |
| | Let’s define some terms22 |
| | What does sustain mean?.24 |
| | What is development?.26 |
| | What is carrying capacity?28 |
| | What is community capital? .30 |
| | What are weak and strong sustainability? 32 |
| | How do you define a community?34 |
| | What is an indicator? 36 |
| | Traditional measures .42 |
| | Interconnected measures .44 |
| | There are many different definitions of sustainability 46 |
| | Brundtland Commission .48 |
| | Brundtland Commission (continued) 50 |
| | Caring for the Earth 52 |
| | Indicators from Caring for the Earth.54 |
| | MACED 56 |
| | Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility.58 |
| | Table of Contents |
| | Sustainable Seattle 60 |
| | Puget Sound/Sustainable Community Roundtable62 |
| | Co-op America .64 |
| | MACED Communities by Choice 66 |
| | Hawaii .68 |
| | Northwest Policy Institute .70 |
| | Indicators for sustainable communities .72 |
| | Sustainable business .74 |
| | Lowell Center for Sustainable Production .76 |
| | The Natural Step 78 |
| | Sustainable production indicators 80 |
| | Sustainable agriculture 82 |
| | Indicators for sustainable agriculture 84 |
| | Sustainability is a vision of the future 86 |
| | Recapping .88 |
| | Next . 90 |
| | Section 2 - What makes a good indicator? . 92 |
| | What are indicators for? 94 |
| | Showing Linkages .96 |
| | What makes a good indicator? .98 |
| | Not at expense of others 100 |
| | Environmental indicators . 102 |
| | Cultural/social indicators . 104 |
| | Economic indicators . 106 |
| | Table of Contents |
| | Making a better indicator 108 |
| | Examples of national economic indicators 110 |
| | Gross National Product. 112 |
| | Genuine Progress Indicator 114 |
| | Ecological Footprint 116 |
| | Making measures that speak to people 118 |
| | Total water use 120 |
| | Water use per person 122 |
| | Water use vs. water available . 124 |
| | Measure cause and effect 126 |
| | Pressure - State - Response 128 |
| | Evaluating indicators . 130 |
| | Environmental indicators . 132 |
| | Economic indicators . 134 |
| | Transportation indicators 136 |
| | Land use indicators . 138 |
| | Recapping 140 |
| | Next . . 142 |
| | Exercises 144 |
| | Section 3 - Developing Indicators.146 |
| | Small Group Exercise . 147 |
| | Small group exercise. 150 |
| | Linking issues 154 |
| | Indicator checklist . 156 |
| | Table of Contents |
| | Recapping 158 |
| | Next . . 160 |
| | Section 4 - Indicator Projects and Resources162 |
| | View of Community . 164 |
| | Economy, environment, society as interlocked circles 166 |
| | Economy in society in environment 168 |
| | Indicator frameworks . 170 |
| | Indicator themes . 172 |
| | Issues 174 |
| | Goals 176 |
| | Indicator criteria . 178 |
| | Examples . 180 |
| | How many indicators do we need? . 182 |
| | Data sources 184 |
| | Local and regional data sources . 186 |
| | National and international data sources 188 |
| | Who is working on sustainability?. 190 |
| | Where are they working on it? 192 |
| | How are they working on it? 194 |
| | Why are people working on it? . 198 |
| | Other resources 200 |
| | How do we get there? . 202 |
| | It’s time to measure what we want to be .204 |