Assessment, sustainable development

What Are the Steps to Implement a Sustainability Audit Process In 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission) called for the development of new ways to measure and assess progress towards sustainable development (USD, 1997). The refinement of a sustainable development audit process has been ongoing since that initial call to action from the Brundtland Commission yet, to date, a fully mature audit process for assessing sustainable development has not yet emerged. Several notable efforts have been undertaken, however, which have provided a leap forward in the maturation process. 

International Institute for Sustainable Development, Assessing Sustainable Development Principles in Practice, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg,... 

The Japanese government has worked with the cement industry to develop a new performance indicator aimed at assessing sustainable development performance. This indicator integrates many types of energy conservation technologies for cement production with the development of co-processing technologies for the utilization of wastes and by-products. 

Jischa gives an overview of sustainable development and technology assessment, particularly from the German point of view and reviewing the German initiatives... 

The most profound challenge to sustainable systems design will be to reconcile the meeting of the essential needs of a growing population with the minimization of its impact on the natural world. Central to the question of sustainable development is an assessment of the degree to which the natural resources of the planet are sufficient and in a condition, now... 

Thermodynamic principles can be used to assess, design and improve energy and other systems, and to better understand environmental impact and sustainability issues. For the broadest understanding, all thermodynamic principles must be used, not just those pertaining to energy. Thus, many researchers feel that an understanding and appreciation of exergy is essential to discussions of sustainable development. 

Table 3 Comprehensive strategy for the risk assessment and management for the sustainable development for aquatic life and human health protection in surface water bodies...

There is an urgent need to find feasible ways that would stop the ensuing depopulation in Ukraine, such ways to ensure survival that would work before die sustainable development concept has been implemented. In these times of a deep economic crisis, the economic and environment-related issues must be attacked simultaneously, in line with one strategy for a cleaner economy. This would be a change from a policy of anthropogenic impact assessment to that of at-source abatement of pollution. 

Cornelissen AMG, van den Berg J, Koops WJ, Udo HMJ (2001) Assessment of the contribution of sustainability indicators to sustainable development a novel approach using fuzzy set theory. Agric Ecosys Environ 86 173-185... 

See also Hazard acceptance Hazard assessment Hazard identification entries limitations of, 13 153-154 probability, 13 166-170 purpose of, 13 152 scenario identification, 13 165 source modeling and consequence modeling, 13 165-166 sustainable development and, 24 183-188 techniques for, 13 152-154 Hazard and operability (HAZOP) analysis, 13 154, 157-159 guide words for, 13 158t sample, 13 159... 

Sustainability, environmental impact assessment and, 10 245 Sustainable chemistry, 24 162 Sustainable development, 24 197 chemistry and, 24 162-205 economic-ecological efficiency and, 24 188-189... 

The relationship between environment and security is indirect and multicasual. Therefore it is difficult to assess the risk to security caused by environmental change. Taking into consideration the principle of sustainable development where the environmental, economic and social issues are interdependent and cannot be pursued separately, the integrated risk assessment is particularly useful. 

WHO. (2000). Towards an Assessment of Socioeconomic Impact of Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh. World Health Organization, Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments, WHO/SDE/WSH/00.4, 1-42. 

The relatively new field of industrial ecology provides a useful organizing framework for DEE (Lowe, 1993). Design for Environment (DEE) is the terminology for the third component of the LCA life-cycle improvement assessment. The principle of sustainable development suggests that companies or individuals should try both to minimize the consumption of virgin natural resources and to minimize the generation of waste material that has no productive use. 

This chapter is meant for developers and designers of processes, in particular of intensified processes, who want to ensure that their processes contribute to sustainable development. To this end problems with the present technological solutions in relation to the world-scale environment and society are explained in the first section. Then in the second section sustainable development is explained and the role and criteria for sustainable technology are derived. Finally process intensification is assessed on its contribution to sustainable development. 

To aid the developer or designer of a new technology the author has derived a scorecard to assess the technology on its contribution to sustainable development. It is based on the sustainable development aspects social, ecology, and economy. The scorecard is shown in Table 2. The basis and use of the scorecard will now be explained. 

Elaborate descriptions of process intensification will be found elsewhere in this book. Here a short description suffices, followed by an assessment on its potential to contribute to sustainable development, based on present industrial cases and general features. 

J.W. Sheffield and Q. Sheffield (eds.), Assessment of Hydrogen Energy for Sustainable Development, 1-8. 

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