Sustainability assessment: criteria and processes
This work tackles the complexities of sustainability assessment and provides practical solutions and comprehensive analysis, guidance and criteria for impact assessment professionals and policy makers at all levels and in all circumstances.
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London [u.a.]
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| Zusammenfassung: | This work tackles the complexities of sustainability assessment and provides practical solutions and comprehensive analysis, guidance and criteria for impact assessment professionals and policy makers at all levels and in all circumstances. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 254 S. |
| ISBN: | 1844070506 9781844070503 1844070514 9781844070510 |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes vii
Preface viii
Acknowledgements xiii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xiv
1 Beginnings: Stumbling Towards Sustainability Assessment 1
Beginning in Labrador 1
Specifying the higher test 11
2 Assessment: Thirty some Years of Environmental
Assessment 14
Growing up in a difficult world 14
Basic and more advanced approaches 15
Development stages and growth trends 21
Maturing assessment and emerging sustainability 36
3 Sustainability: The Essentials of the Concept 38
A necessary and difficult idea 38
Old sustainability 39
Groundwork for a new sustainability 41
The second coming of sustainability 47
Debating the concept 51
The essentials 59
Initial implications for assessment regimes 62
4 Practice: Sustainability in Illustrative Initiatives 66
Theory and practice 66
Stories 67
Lessons from the stories 82
5 Criteria: Sustainability Requirements as the Basis for
Decision Making 88
The need for decision criteria 88
Requirements for progress towards sustainability 95
Characteristics, strengths and limitations of the requirements as
decision criteria 115
vi Sustainability Assessment
6 Trade offs: Facing Conflict and Compromise 122
Pursuing sustainability in a messy world 122
Unavoidable trade offs 123
Trade offs of substance and process 125
Trade off rules 130
Beyond the rules 138
7 Processes: Designing Sustainability Assessment Regimes 142
How versus what 142
Basic process principles 144
Components of a sustainability assessment law 145
Transitions 162
8 Decisions: Applying Sustainability based Criteria in
Significance Determinations and Other Common
Assessment Judgements 165
Decisions and significance 165
Applying sustainability based criteria in significance judgements 168
9 Continuations: The Way Ahead 180
Proliferation !80
The fundamentals and the variations 181
Getting there I85
References *°
Appendices 206
Index 248
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
Figures
3.1 Circles of sustainability 57
3.2 Intersecting pillars of sustainability 58
Tables
3.1 Pearce and Turner s sustainability spectrum 53
3.2 Pezzoli s ten categories of literature on sustainable development 54
3.3 The three pillar version 55
Boxes
2.1 The structure and key components of potentially effective
assessment processes 17
2.2 Four stages in the development from environmental regulations to
advanced environmental assessment 22
2.3 Twelve major trends in the growth of environmental assessment 23
3.1 Sustainable development multiple choice 52
3.2 The essentials of the concept of sustainability 62
5.1 Sustainability requirements as decision criteria 116
6.1 General trade off rules 139
7.1 Best practice design principles for sustainability assessment
processes 146
8.1 Conventional criteria for evaluating the significance of effects 172
8.2 Generic sustainability based criteria for evaluating the
significance of effects 173
8.3 Generic questions for evaluating the significance of trade offs 177
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Contents
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes vii
Preface viii
Acknowledgements xiii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xiv
1 Beginnings: Stumbling Towards Sustainability Assessment 1
Beginning in Labrador 1
Specifying the higher test 11
2 Assessment: Thirty some Years of Environmental
Assessment 14
Growing up in a difficult world 14
Basic and more advanced approaches 15
Development stages and growth trends 21
Maturing assessment and emerging sustainability 36
3 Sustainability: The Essentials of the Concept 38
A necessary and difficult idea 38
Old sustainability 39
Groundwork for a new sustainability 41
The second coming of sustainability 47
Debating the concept 51
The essentials 59
Initial implications for assessment regimes 62
4 Practice: Sustainability in Illustrative Initiatives 66
Theory and practice 66
Stories 67
Lessons from the stories 82
5 Criteria: Sustainability Requirements as the Basis for
Decision Making 88
The need for decision criteria 88
Requirements for progress towards sustainability 95
Characteristics, strengths and limitations of the requirements as
decision criteria 115
vi Sustainability Assessment
6 Trade offs: Facing Conflict and Compromise 122
Pursuing sustainability in a messy world 122
Unavoidable trade offs 123
Trade offs of substance and process 125
Trade off rules 130
Beyond the rules 138
7 Processes: Designing Sustainability Assessment Regimes 142
How versus what 142
Basic process principles 144
Components of a sustainability assessment law 145
Transitions 162
8 Decisions: Applying Sustainability based Criteria in
Significance Determinations and Other Common
Assessment Judgements 165
Decisions and significance 165
Applying sustainability based criteria in significance judgements 168
9 Continuations: The Way Ahead 180
Proliferation !80
The fundamentals and the variations 181
Getting there I85
References *°"
Appendices 206
Index 248
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
Figures
3.1 Circles of sustainability 57
3.2 Intersecting pillars of sustainability 58
Tables
3.1 Pearce and Turner's sustainability spectrum 53
3.2 Pezzoli's ten categories of literature on sustainable development 54
3.3 The three pillar version 55
Boxes
2.1 The structure and key components of potentially effective
assessment processes 17
2.2 Four stages in the development from environmental regulations to
advanced environmental assessment 22
2.3 Twelve major trends in the growth of environmental assessment 23
3.1 Sustainable development multiple choice 52
3.2 The essentials of the concept of sustainability 62
5.1 Sustainability requirements as decision criteria 116
6.1 General trade off rules 139
7.1 Best practice design principles for sustainability assessment
processes 146
8.1 Conventional criteria for evaluating the significance of effects 172
8.2 Generic sustainability based criteria for evaluating the
significance of effects 173
8.3 Generic questions for evaluating the significance of trade offs 177 |
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