Applying sustainability assessment models

Pope, Jenny; Morrison‐Saunders, Angus; Annandale, David

doi:10.3152/147154605781765436

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“…Thérivel et al (2009) indicted that none of the 45 SAs investigated specifically referred to any situation where environmental loss had been compensated by socio-economic gain, so it appears unlikely that there was explicit application of weak sustainability principles (although this might be the implicit outcome) and more likely that no sustainability principles were explicitly applied. Haughton et al, (2009) Reserve (Pope et al, 2004;Pope et al, 2005), there were ultimately environmental trade-offs in favour of the principally economic benefits that the project would deliver. Likewise, despite rigorous commitments to mitigation and follow-up strategies, the South-West Yarragadee groundwater extraction proposal if implemented would have caused some significant impacts on groundwater dependent ecosystems (Environmental Protection Authority, 2006).…”

Section: Understanding Of Sustainabilitymentioning

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Re-evaluating Sustainability Assessment: Aligning the vision and the practice

Bond

Morrison‐Saunders

2011

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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Sustainable Development is the core goal of the expanding field of Sustainability Assessment (SA). However, we find that three key areas of debate in relation to SA practice in England and Western Australia can be classified as policy controversies. Through literature review and analysis of documentary evidence we consider the problem of reductionism (breaking down complex processes to simple terms or component parts) as opposed to holism (considering systems as wholes); the issue of contested understandings of the meaning of sustainability (and of the purpose of SA); and the definition of 'inter-generational' in the context of sustainable development and how this is reflected in the timescales considered in SA. We argue that SA practice is based on particular framings of the policy controversies and that the critical role of SA in facilitating deliberation over these controversies needs to be recognised if there is to be a move towards a new deliberative sustainability discourse which can accommodate these different framings.

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Section: Understanding Of Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-evaluating Sustainability Assessment: Aligning the vision and the practice

Bond

Morrison‐Saunders

2011

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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“…An additional conundrum raised by this 'ownership' of alternatives (flagged in Pope et al, 2004;Pope et al, 2005) is that it facilitates sustainability appraisal to make relative evaluations (i.e. which of these alternatives performs best in terms of sustainability?)…”

Section: Sustainability Indicators: Framing the Resultsmentioning

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Sustainability appraisal: jack of all trades, master of none?

Bond¹,

Morrison‐Saunders²

2009

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal

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Sustainable development is a commonly quoted goal for decision making and supports a large number of other discourses. Sustainability appraisal has a stated goal of supporting decision making for sustainable development. We suggest that the inherent flexibility of sustainability appraisal facilitates outcomes that often do not adhere to the three goals enshrined in most definitions of sustainable development: economic growth, environmental protection and enhancement, and the wellbeing of the human population. Current practice is for sustainable development to be disenfranchised through the interpretation of sustainability, whereby the best alternative is good enough even when unsustainable. Practitioners must carefully and transparently review the frameworks applied during sustainability appraisal to ensure that outcomes will meet the three goals, rather than focusing on a discourse that emphasises one or more goals at the expense of the other(s).

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“…The national sustainability on the other hand places emphasis on population's conformity to a changing natural environment, factors contributing to (or constraining) social equity and the coherence of national policy frameworks. Among project participants, sustainability is coalesced around continued production gains and increased income streams resulting from project initiatives (Pope et al 2005).…”

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Role of Participatory Management in the Sustainability of Constituency Development Fund Projects: A Case Study of Maragua Constituency

Ojwang¹,

Bwisa²

2014

IJARBSS

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In the light of bureaucratic governance hitherto observed, introduction of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in Kenya was viewed as a sovereign panacea to the dwarfed and imbalanced local level development that was then common place. In spite of this heavy billing however, impacts accruing from the initiatives remain a pale shadow of the anticipated with a number of them ending up being 'white elephants' and majority recording low sustainability levels. This research sought to determine contribution of Participatory Management in influencing determinants of Constituency Development Fund projects' sustainability. The research study adopted a case study design with target population being CDF project stakeholders within Maragua constituency in Kenya. Semi-structured questionnaire was administered to a sample of 89 stakeholders randomly selected from stratified target population distributed across the constituency. Descriptive and inferential data analysis was then applied to determine and assess the relationships through SPSS Version 20.0. The analysis showed that Participatory Management is crucial in inculcating the determinants of sustainability in CDF projects. However, the findings further showed that there was very little stakeholder participation in the entire cycle management of the projects within Maragua Constituency which contributed to low ownership of the projects. The research recommends review of CDF policy to expressly capture procedures of stakeholder engagement. The research further recommends elaborate documentation of data generated from participatory exercises in form of lessons learnt.

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Applying sustainability assessment models

Cited by 43 publications

References 5 publications

Re-evaluating Sustainability Assessment: Aligning the vision and the practice

Re-evaluating Sustainability Assessment: Aligning the vision and the practice

Sustainability appraisal: jack of all trades, master of none?

Role of Participatory Management in the Sustainability of Constituency Development Fund Projects: A Case Study of Maragua Constituency

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