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Sustainability Indicators Past and Present: What Next?
- Source :
- Sustainability; Volume 10; Issue 5; Pages: 1688, Sustainability, Vol 10, Iss 5, p 1688 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018.
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Abstract
- This paper discusses the current state of thought amongst the Sustainability Indicator (SI) community, what has been achieved and where we are succeeding and failing. Recent years have witnessed the rise of “alternative facts” and “fake news” and this paper discusses how SIs fit into this maelstrom, especially as they are themselves designed to encapsulate complexity into condensed signals and it has long been known that SIs can be selectively used to support polarized sides of a debate. This paper draws from chapters in a new edited volume, the “Routledge Handbook of Sustainability Indicators and Indices”, edited by the authors. The book has 34 chapters written by a total of 59 SI experts from a wide range of backgrounds, and attempts to provide a picture of the past and present, strengths and weaknesses of SI development today. This paper is an “analysis of those analyses”—a mindful reflection on reflection, and an assessment of the malign and benign forces at work in 2018 within the SI arena. Finally, we seek to identify where SIs may be going over the coming, unpredictable years.
- Subjects :
- fake news
sustainability indicators
gross domestic product
GDP
tweets
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Geography, Planning and Development
lcsh:Renewable energy sources
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Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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Gross domestic product
State (polity)
Political science
0502 economics and business
lcsh:Environmental sciences
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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lcsh:GE1-350
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
business.industry
lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants
05 social sciences
Public relations
Maelstrom
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Work (electrical)
Edited volume
Sustainability
Fake news
business
050203 business & management
Strengths and weaknesses
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability; Volume 10; Issue 5; Pages: 1688
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c9ae9574bc4d168bc72f913ecabc29e0
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su10051688