Sustainometrics: Measuring sustainability
The paper argues for the need of "sustainometrics", i.e. a science that studies, models and measures sustainable development, including measuring progress towards sustainability, measuring the status quo, benchmarking and best practices. There are already vast bodies of research as to how...
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The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand
2009
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| author | Todorov, Vladislav Marinova, Dora |
| author2 | Anderssen, R.S |
| author_facet | Anderssen, R.S Todorov, Vladislav Marinova, Dora |
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| description | The paper argues for the need of "sustainometrics", i.e. a science that studies, models and measures sustainable development, including measuring progress towards sustainability, measuring the status quo, benchmarking and best practices. There are already vast bodies of research as to how to study and measure the economic, social and environmental but we do not know how to study and measure the whole. To make things even more complex, this whole is dynamic as it is constantly co-evolving with its components. This often results in the emergence of unexpected properties, an example of which is climate change. A new area of knowledge (and profession) is currently appearing which is sustainability. In order for it to inform policy decisions and guide human behaviour it will need to also develop its modelling and measuring tools (including sustainability indicators, ecological footprint and food miles among other) and information systems (local, regional and global), which sustainometrics should provide. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-186562022-12-09T05:23:43Z Sustainometrics: Measuring sustainability Todorov, Vladislav Marinova, Dora Anderssen, R.S R.D. Braddock L.T.H. Newham intelligent information system sustainable development global system Co-evolution The paper argues for the need of "sustainometrics", i.e. a science that studies, models and measures sustainable development, including measuring progress towards sustainability, measuring the status quo, benchmarking and best practices. There are already vast bodies of research as to how to study and measure the economic, social and environmental but we do not know how to study and measure the whole. To make things even more complex, this whole is dynamic as it is constantly co-evolving with its components. This often results in the emergence of unexpected properties, an example of which is climate change. A new area of knowledge (and profession) is currently appearing which is sustainability. In order for it to inform policy decisions and guide human behaviour it will need to also develop its modelling and measuring tools (including sustainability indicators, ecological footprint and food miles among other) and information systems (local, regional and global), which sustainometrics should provide. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18656 The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand fulltext |
| spellingShingle | intelligent information system sustainable development global system Co-evolution Todorov, Vladislav Marinova, Dora Sustainometrics: Measuring sustainability |
| title | Sustainometrics: Measuring sustainability |
| title_full | Sustainometrics: Measuring sustainability |
| title_fullStr | Sustainometrics: Measuring sustainability |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainometrics: Measuring sustainability |
| title_short | Sustainometrics: Measuring sustainability |
| title_sort | sustainometrics: measuring sustainability |
| topic | intelligent information system sustainable development global system Co-evolution |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/18656 |