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Developing indicators of sustainability: US experience
Sustainability indicators integrate environmental, social, and economic factors such that the complex cause and-effect relationships between these multiple factors can be more readily investigated. The whole systems approach of sustainable development differs from traditional environmentalism by its inclusion of economic and social factors. The selection of sustainability indicators will therefore inevitably be a human value-driven process. Environmental health will nonetheless be paramount. Empirical studies in the USA have found that states with lower pollution levels and more environmental regulation have healthier economies and fewer disparities in income between economic classes (Templet, 1995). In construction, indicators of sustainable construction are a necessary parallel to the macro-national and regional-scale indicators measuring society's movement toward or away from some approximation to sustainable development. Les indicateurs de viabilite integrent des facteurs ecologiques, sociaux et economiques tels que les relations complexes de cause et effet entre ces multiples facteurs puissent etre examines plus aisement. L'approche par systemes entiers des amenagements viables differe de l'ecologisme traditionnel en ce qu'elle inclut des facteurs economiques et sociaux. Le choix d'indicateurs de viabilite est donc inevitablement un processus motive par des valeurs humaines. Mais la sante de l'environnement n'en demeure pas moins le point essentiel. Des etudes empiriques accomplies aux Etats-Unis ont fait apparaitre que les Etats a niveaux de pollution plus bas et reglementation ecologique plus rigoureuse presentent des economies plus saines et moins de disparites de revenu entre classes economiques (Templet, 1995). Dans le batiment, des indicateurs de viabilite de construction constituent un parallele necessaire aux indicateurs a echelon macronational et regional mesurant le mouvement de la societe dans le sens d'un rapprochement ou d'un ecartement d'une certaine approximation de viabilite d'amengement.
Developing indicators of sustainability: US experience
Sustainability indicators integrate environmental, social, and economic factors such that the complex cause and-effect relationships between these multiple factors can be more readily investigated. The whole systems approach of sustainable development differs from traditional environmentalism by its inclusion of economic and social factors. The selection of sustainability indicators will therefore inevitably be a human value-driven process. Environmental health will nonetheless be paramount. Empirical studies in the USA have found that states with lower pollution levels and more environmental regulation have healthier economies and fewer disparities in income between economic classes (Templet, 1995). In construction, indicators of sustainable construction are a necessary parallel to the macro-national and regional-scale indicators measuring society's movement toward or away from some approximation to sustainable development. Les indicateurs de viabilite integrent des facteurs ecologiques, sociaux et economiques tels que les relations complexes de cause et effet entre ces multiples facteurs puissent etre examines plus aisement. L'approche par systemes entiers des amenagements viables differe de l'ecologisme traditionnel en ce qu'elle inclut des facteurs economiques et sociaux. Le choix d'indicateurs de viabilite est donc inevitablement un processus motive par des valeurs humaines. Mais la sante de l'environnement n'en demeure pas moins le point essentiel. Des etudes empiriques accomplies aux Etats-Unis ont fait apparaitre que les Etats a niveaux de pollution plus bas et reglementation ecologique plus rigoureuse presentent des economies plus saines et moins de disparites de revenu entre classes economiques (Templet, 1995). Dans le batiment, des indicateurs de viabilite de construction constituent un parallele necessaire aux indicateurs a echelon macronational et regional mesurant le mouvement de la societe dans le sens d'un rapprochement ou d'un ecartement d'une certaine approximation de viabilite d'amengement.
Developing indicators of sustainability: US experience
Guy, G. Bradley (author) / Kibert, Charles J. (author)
Building Research & Information ; 26 ; 39-45
1998-01-01
7 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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