In the debate about a global transformation of energy systems, technology transfer and financial aid are seen as crucial factors for the promotion of sustainable energy in de-veloping countries. As the single most important aid agency, the World Bank claims to fight both energy poverty and...

This paper proposes a new tool to assess sustainability and make the concept of sustainable development operational. It considers its multi-dimensional structure combining the information deriving from a selection of relevant sustainability indicators belonging to economic, social and...

The aim of this paper is to describe and discuss the weak and strong sustainability approach of assessing climate change and to show reasonable applications, weaknesses, possible improvements and linkages of both approaches. Main features of ?weak? and ?strong? sustainability approaches are...

The search for frameworks and indicators of sustainable development has taken a prominent place in this journal. However, some specific aspects have received little or no attention, notably the spatial dimension and the role of international trade in indicator development. Moreover, many...

In the past few years sustainability and sustainable development have become important concepts widespread over the world. There is no agreement on a common definition of sustainability, but there is a general need to measure and assess sustainability in different geographical and spatial...

The Communication on Environmental Indicators and Green National Accounting (Com (94) 670 final, 21.12.94) laid the basis for indicator and accounting projects aimed to give comprehensive support to environmental policy, like GARP and GreenStamp. The article is intended to demonstrate: that...

This paper first describes two types of adjustments to National Accounting Systems, which take the environment into account: the first type centres on accounting conventions, through a change in the system boundary, in order to include specified categories of environmental assets (called...

Seit 25 Jahren wird das Konzept der Nachhaltigkeit intensiv diskutiert. Die Leistung dieses Ansatzes liegt darin, dass ökonomische, soziale und ökologische Aspekte in einen Gesamtkontext gestellt werden. Mit ihnen werden die Dimensionen Wirtschaftlichkeit, soziale Sicherheit und...

This report summarizes and synthesizes the outcomes of a pilot testing project on a set of UNRISD-designed Sustainable Development Performance Indicators (SDPI) that are intended to gauge whether economic entities are on a pathway consistent with the transformative goals and vision of the 2030...

Der Beitrag stellt drei Sätze von disziplinären Nachhaltigkeitskriterien aus ökologischer, ökonomischer und sozialer Perspektive vor, die im Rahmen des interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts "Arbeit und Ökologie" entwickelt wurden, um Elemente einer integrativen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie zu...