Concept of Indicators

After initiation by the AGENDA 21 various institutions started working on environmental indicator concepts. A comprehensive report on existing approaches of environmental indicator concepts is given by Walz et al. (1995). They describe that most of the concepts already published and available for international comparisons suffer from [Pg.7]

There is a general agreement within the research community that the DSR-framework is the most perfeeted and therefore the highest internationally accepted framework. This enhanees the international standard of environmental indicators (Munchhausen and Nieberg 1997, Walz et al. 1995). Due to these reasons and due to the international approach of the projeet, this study relies on the set of environmental indieators for the agricultural sector developed within the DSR-framework by the OECD. [Pg.7]

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