Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable?Earthscan Publications, 1999 - 175 pagine This text addresses global interest in ways of measuring sustainability. The authors review the development and value of such sustainability indicators. Set against the late-1990s trends in sustainability indicator development, the authors discuss the advantages of taking an holistic and subjective approach. Building on practices such as the sustainable cities initiative, they describe a systemic approach to sustainability indicator development, and conclude by developing a series of questions for future development. |
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... reductionist approach . Reductionism has received much criticism by authors such as Capra ( 1982 ; 1996 ) and MacRae et al ( 1989 ) on the reasonable basis that some systems are so complex , with millions of interactions , that we are ...
... reductionist approach . Reductionism has received much criticism by authors such as Capra ( 1982 ; 1996 ) and MacRae et al ( 1989 ) on the reasonable basis that some systems are so complex , with millions of interactions , that we are ...
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... reductionism and holism , it can be argued that this idea of scientific method finds its logical extreme in reductionism . reductionism n ( 1943 ) ( 1 ) the attempt to explain all biological processes by the same explanations ( as by ...
... reductionism and holism , it can be argued that this idea of scientific method finds its logical extreme in reductionism . reductionism n ( 1943 ) ( 1 ) the attempt to explain all biological processes by the same explanations ( as by ...
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... reductionist scientist - which is that the knowing process works by ' a procedure or theory that reduces complex data or phenomena to simple terms ' - is no longer valid for us ( nor would we agree that simplicity depends on reductionism ) ...
... reductionist scientist - which is that the knowing process works by ' a procedure or theory that reduces complex data or phenomena to simple terms ' - is no longer valid for us ( nor would we agree that simplicity depends on reductionism ) ...
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Sustainability and Sustainability Indicators 3369 | 3 |
Sustainability Indicators in Practice | 33 |
Indicators Cities Institutions and Projects | 59 |
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