Оценка качества жизни городского населения требует исследования всех факторов, определяющих такое качество: экономических, социальных и экологических. Для...

В статье показывается необходимость разработки индикаторов устойчивого развития для регионов. Выделяется два подхода к построению таких индикаторов: 1)...

The sustainable development indicators are often considered as planning tools allowing to command and control a social-ecological system. This approach is not in accordance with either the complexity of the decision processes or the individual cognitive capacities. In order to imagine some...

Semi-structured interviews with 47 key actors were conducted in Swedish water utilities on why Sustainable Development Indicators (SDIs) are or are not used. Important influencing aspects identified included organizational inertia, social capital, the national water sector and authorities....

This paper analyses the targets of the Romanian state according to Europe’s 200 Strategy. Being a new Member State, Romania’s targets for 2020 are lower than those of the older members. Even like this, using Eurostat indicators and the Report of World Economic Forum, my purpose is to present...

Nowadays more than 100 countries try to implement a national sustainable development strategy with hundreds of indicators in use for the evaluation of their progress. The aim of the article is to compare the sustainable development performances of the EU-27 countries through some critical...

Agenda 21 required countries to develop and regularly update a national set of indicators for sustainable development. Several countries now have such sets also including separate indicators for climate change. Some of these indicators typically report global concentration of green house gasses...

Electricity supplies an increasing share of the world’s total energy demand and that contribution is set to increase. At the same time, there is increasing socio-political will to mitigate impacts of climate change as well as to improve energy security. This, in combination with the desire to...

'How are we progressing towards achieving sustainable development in the EU's desired knowledge society?' Current lists of indicators, indices and assessment tools, which have been developed for measuring and displaying performance at different spatial levels, show that progress has been made....

Agenda 21 required countries to develop and regularly update a national set of indicators for sustainable development. Several countries now have such sets also including separate indicators for climate change. Some of these indicators typically report global concentration of green house gases...