Routledge handbook of sustainability indicators / edited by Simon Bell and Stephen Morse.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the book: indicators and post truth / Simon Bell and Stephen Morse -- Bellagio STAMP: principles for sustainability assessment and measurement / László Pintér, Peter Hardi, André Martinuzzi, Jon Hall -- Contributions to the Evolving theory and practice of indicators of sustainability / Arthur Lyon Dahl -- Substantiating the rough consensus on concept of sustainable development as point of departure for indicator development / Walter J.V. Vermeulen -- From crises and gurus to science and metrics: Yale's Environmental Performance Index and the rise of data-driven policymaking / Daniel C. Esty and John W. Emerson -- The limits of sustainability and resilience frameworks: lessons from agri-food system research / Sarah Rotz and Evan Fraser -- Lessons from the history of GDP in the effort to create better indicators of prosperity, well-being, and happiness / Robert Costanza, Maureen Hart, Ida Kubiszewski, Steve Posner, and John Talberth -- A systems-theoretical perspective on sustainable development and indicators / Paul-Marie Boulanger -- World views, interests and indicator choices / Joachim H. Spangenberg -- Sustainability indicators and certification schemes for the built environment / Catalina Turcu -- Measuring water scarcity and water consumption / Jonathan Chenoweth -- Participatory approaches for the development and evaluation of Sustainability Indicators / Simon Bell and Stephen Morse -- Environmental governance indicators and indices in support of policy-making / Dora Almassy and Laszlo Pinter -- Environmentally Sustainable National Income, an Indicator / Roefie Hueting and Bart de Boer -- Green accounting: balancing environment and economy / Peter Bartelmus -- Ecological Footprint Accounts: Principles / Mathis Wackernagel, Alessandro Galli, Laurel Hanscom, David Lin, Laetitia Mailhes and Tony Drummond -- Governing by numbers: China, Viet Nam, and Malaysia's adaptation of the Environmental Performance Index / Angel Hsu -- The Human Sustainable Development Index / Giangiacomo Bravo -- The Environmental Performance Index: does this reflect reality? / Elisabeth Conrad and Louis F Cassar -- Sustainability-related indicators developed for governments / Lucas Reijnders -- Sustainable development indicators Finland: Going from large descriptive sets to target oriented actively used indicators / Ulla Rosenström -- The Socio-Ecological System (SES) approach to sustainable development indicators / Gilberto C. Gallopin -- UNEP and the CSD process for sustainable development indicators / Arthur Lyon Dahl -- Prospects for standardising sustainable urban development / Simon Joss and Yvonne Rydin -- Stakeholder-driven initiatives using sustainability indicators / Ana Rita Domingues, Rodrigo Lozano and Tomás B. Ramos -- How evil is aggregation? lessons from the Dashboard of Sustainability / Jochen Jesinghaus -- Criteria and indicators to audit the performance of complex, multi-functional forest landscapes / Dwi Amalia Sari, Chris Margules, Agni Klintuni Boedhihartono and Jeffrey Sayer -- The devil is in the detail! Sustainability assessment of African smallholder farming by/ Wytze Marinus, Esther Ronner, Gerrie W. J. van de Ven, Fred Kanampiu, Samuel Adjei-Nsiah and Ken E. Giller -- Sustainable agricultural intensification and measuring the immeasurable: Do we have a choice? / Philip Grabowski, Mark Musumba, Cheryl Palm and Sieglinde Snapp -- Relevance: A neglected feature of sustainability indicators / Svatava Janouková, Tomás Hák and Bedrich Moldan -- Measurement matters: toward data-driven environmental policy-making / Daniel C. Esty -- Meta-evaluation of Sustainability Indicators: from organizational to national level / Tomás B. Ramos and Sandra Caeiro -- Ecological Footprint Accounts: criticisms and applications / Mathis Wackernagel, Alessandro Galli, Laurel Hanscom, David Lin, Laetitia Mailhes and Tony Drummond -- Where next? / Simon Bell and Stephen Morse.

"This handbook provides researchers and students with an overview of the field of sustainability indicators (SIs) as applied in the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development. The editors have sought to include views from the center ground of SI development but also divergent views which represent some of the diverse, challenging and even edgy observations which are prominent in the wider field of SI thinking. The contributions in this handbook: - Clearly set out the theoretical background and history of SIs, their origins, roots and initial goals - Expand on the disciplines and modalities employed to develop SIs of various kinds - Assess the various ways in which SI data are gathered and the availability (over space and time) and quality issues that surround them - Explore the multiplex world of SIs as expressed in agencies around the world, via examples of SSI practice and the lessons that have emerged from them. - Critically review the progress that SIs have made over the last thirty year - Express the divergence of views which are held about the value of SIs including differing views about their efficacy, efficiency and ethics - Explore the frontier of contemporary SI thinking, reviewing anti/ post and systemic alternatives This multidisciplinary and international Handbook will be of great interest to researchers, students and practitioners working in sustainability research and practice"--