The four‐capital method of sustainable development evaluation

Ekins, Paul; Dresner, Simon; Dahlström, Kristina

doi:10.1002/eet.471

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“…A good indicator should satisfy a number of criteria Tate (2002). Further, what are the criteria of sustainability, or the critical thresholds, that could be applied across these dimensions to facilitate judgments as to whether development is sustainable or not (Ekins et al, 2008). De Kruijf and Van Vuuren (1998); Ravetz (2000); ; The Energy & Biodiversity Initiative (2002); Yuan and James (2002); Ledoux et al (2005) have developed a number of additional criteria to determine the quality of indicators selected or proposed.…”

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A Model for Incorporated Measurement of Sustainable Development Comprising Remote Sensing Data and Using the Concept of Biodiversity

Petrosyan¹

2010

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The central point of the paper is on concern of how to utilize indicators to observe sustainable development in an applicable and valuable way. The aim of the work was to propose a model for achieving a composite sustainable development index using the concept of Biodiversity in order to track incorporated information on social, economic and environmental dimension of the municipality with time periods, according to: 1) Social (Population); 2) Economic (Agriculture, Tourism, Agricultural Goods and Industry); 3) Environmental (output of remote sensing data using Fragstat software). An attractive approach is suggested for the environmental dimension. The calculated metrics become an input to the model like Environmental Indicators. In addition, the concepts of Biodiversity are kept for Environmental Indicators in the following way: Ecosystem = Landscape Level and Species = Class Level. Finally, the results, discussions and conclusions are provided for each existing theme, each dimension and CSDI.

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A Model for Incorporated Measurement of Sustainable Development Comprising Remote Sensing Data and Using the Concept of Biodiversity

Petrosyan¹

2010

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“…This is introduced to account for the full cost of a project including profit and loss, and also benefits of a business or a company giving broader definition for bottom-line assessment. Likewise, concepts such as four-capital, five-capital, and six-capital methods are also derived from economics, whereby capital stocks provide a flow of goods and services [36]. For example, the six-capitals method proposes financial, manufactured, intellectual, human, social, and natural capitals to account for all the flows of benefits, some of which are quantified with a monetary value and others are not [36].…”

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Assessment of Sustainability of Urban Water Supply and Demand Management Options: A Comprehensive Approach

Rathnayaka

Malano

Arora

2016

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Abstract:A comprehensive evaluation framework that can assess a wide range of water supply and demand management policy options in terms of economic, social, environmental, risk-based, and functional performance is crucial to ascertain their level of sustainability. However, such a detailed, generic, and holistic policy evaluation framework is not found in the literature. This paper reviews studies to evaluate water supply and/or demand management options conducted during 2000-2016. Primarily, the paper reviews the evaluation criteria used by different studies for decision making given their significant difference and the importance of a comprehensive set of criteria to complete a rigorous evaluation. In addition, a comprehensive set of water supply and demand management options are not considered together for a comparative assessment to prioritise best options for a certain area and time. Further, performance of these options needs to be evaluated for a range of uncertainties arising from changes of spatial and temporal variables of the system. While this paper highlights the important aspects that need to be included in a comprehensive policy evaluation framework, available studies collectively present a rich set of information to support it.

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“…As opposed to indicative indicator systems, such as the ESI, this approach aims to elucidate the sustainability level in a definitive manner, putting an emphasis on clarifying the concept of sustainability itself. The capital concept states that capital stocks provide a flow of goods and services necessary for human well-being (Ekins et al 2008). According to this approach, there are basically four types of capital: natural capital, human-made capital, human capital, and social capital.…”

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Sustainability assessment with time-series scores: a case study of Chinese provinces

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Asian nations are currently facing a number of challenges, including environmental degradation and growing societal inequalities, in the course of their rapid economic growth and industrialization. Under such conditions, it is of critical importance to develop appropriate assessment tools with which to comprehensively measure the sustainability status of a region in order to guide its transformation into a sustainable society. This paper proposes a method of sustainability assessment consisting of the three components of environment, resource, and socioeconomic with aggregated time-series scores. This method can demonstrate the relative sustainability scores of targeted regions for different time periods, thereby, enabling the comparison of relative sustainability status for different regions over these periods. We carried out a case study of Chinese provinces for the years 2000 and 2005 using the proposed method and confirmed its applicability as the indicative type of sustainability assessment at the regional level, while actually investigating the sustainability status and its chronological changes. The results indicated that aggregate sustainability index scores improved between 2000 and 2005 in most provinces, mainly due to significant improvement in the scores for the socio-economic component, whereas the scores for the environment component deteriorated in some provinces over the study period. Our method proves to be effective in analyzing the relative sustainability status among targeted regions for different time periods in the form of aggregate scores, paving the way for practical applications, such as policy analysis, in the pursuit of a sustainable society.

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The four‐capital method of sustainable development evaluation

Cited by 67 publications

References 1 publication

A Model for Incorporated Measurement of Sustainable Development Comprising Remote Sensing Data and Using the Concept of Biodiversity

A Model for Incorporated Measurement of Sustainable Development Comprising Remote Sensing Data and Using the Concept of Biodiversity

Assessment of Sustainability of Urban Water Supply and Demand Management Options: A Comprehensive Approach

Sustainability assessment with time-series scores: a case study of Chinese provinces

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