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标题：Sustainability Assessment and Indicators: Tools in a Decision-Making Strategy for Sustainable Development
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作者：Waas, Tom ; Hugé, Jean ; Block, Thomas 等
期刊名称：Sustainability
印刷版ISSN：2071-1050
出版年度：2014
卷号：6
期号：9
页码：5512-5534
出版社：MDPI, Open Access Journal
摘要：Recognizing the urgent need for sustainability, we argue that to move beyond the rhetoric and to actually realize sustainable development, it must be considered as a decision-making strategy. We demonstrate that sustainability assessment and sustainability indicators can be powerful decision-supporting tools that foster sustainable development by addressing three sustainability decision-making challenges: interpretation, information-structuring, and influence. Particularly, since the 1990s many substantial and often promising sustainability assessment and sustainability indicators efforts are made. However, better practices and a broader shared understanding are still required. We aim to contribute to that objective by adopting a theoretical perspective that frames SA and SI in the context of sustainable development as a decision-making strategy and that introduces both fields along several essential aspects in a structured and comparable manner.
关键词：sustainability assessment; sustainability indicators; decision-making; impact assessment; sustainable development