Sustainability indicators

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Carruthers, G. and Tinning, G. 2003. Where, and how, do monitoring and sustainability indicators fit into environmental management systems Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 43(3) 307-323. 

King, C., Gunton, J., Freebairn, D., Coutts, J. and Webb, I. 2000. The sustainability indicator industry where to from here A focus group study to explore the potential of farmer participation in the development of indicators. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 40(4) 631-642. 

Pannell, D.J. and Glenn, N.A. 2000. A framework for the economic evaluation and selection of sustainability indicators in agriculture. Ecological Economics 33(1) 135-149. 

Moser A. Ecotechnology in industrial practice implementation using sustainability indices and case studies. Ecological Eng 1996 7 117-138. 

Government of Canada. 2006. Canadian environmental sustainability indicators 2006 report. Environment Canada. Ottawa (Ontario). 

B. Beloff and E. Beaver, Sustainability Indicators and Metrics of Industrial Performance, paper SPE 60982, Proceedings of Society of Petroleum Engineers International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production, Stavanger, Norway, 26-28 June, 2000. 

Efforts to develop sustainability indicators and metrics have been made at various scales, ranging from global down to local community, business unit, and technology levels. In general, indicators and metrics are designed to capture the ideas inherent in sustainability and transform them into a manageable set of quantitative measures and indices that are useful for communication and decision-making. In this section, we provide an overview of sustainability indicators and metrics, especially as they relate to the chemical industry. This section will be followed by two specific case studies on the uses of sustainability metrics and indicators in product/process development in chemical companies. 

Corporate-Level Metrics. Indicators and metrics of sustainability have also been identified and developed at the community, corporate, business unit, or even process or technology levels. Information regarding sustainability indicators at the community level may be found, for instance, at the International Sustainability Indicators Network s website (www.sustainabilityindicators.org). The remainder of this... 

In Section 6.2.4, Societal Costs , we learn that societal costs constitute an important element of the costs of environmental impacts from industrial activities, although they often fall outside the private calculation of costs and benefits to a company. This entry gives a perspective on the importance to a company of considering these externalities as a sustainability indicator in both management decision-making and facility design and optimization. 

Note Other category includes Internal audits against company standards, Third party sustainability indices and external ratings. 

Which companies operate according to the principles of sustainability The answer can be found in special share indices - the so-called sustainability indices. In 2003, BASF was again included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the third year in succession. This index includes only 10 percent of chemical companies represented in the Dow Jones Global Index. BASF shares are also listed in the FTSE4Good index and are included in the portfolios of various sustainability funds such as Storebrand s Principle fund. 

To be included and to remain listed in these sustainability indices, BASF has to undergo an annual detailed assessment by a rating agency. The agency s analysts scrutinize to what extent we have integrated sustainability principles into our... 

Sustainability is important in the context of industry sectors, products, process technologies, and individual process plants. In assessing performance achievement in sustainability, there is a need for suitable sustainability indicators to measure progress in environmental, economic, and social performance. 

Development of Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indices (ESI) for Energetic Contaminants at Military Ranges... 

As mentioned in Section 12.5, series of generic risk-based Environmental Sustainability Indices (ESI) values for MC in soil have been calculated using the CCME approach [57,59], Because the use of the standard CCME industrial scenario would not be protective for wildlife (birds and mammals) present on Canadian DND testing... 

Evans, A., V. Strezov and T.J. Evans (2009) Assessment of sustainability indicators for renewable energy technologies . Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 1082-8. 

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