Towards an Integrated Performance Indicator for (Energy) Benchmarking Covenants with Industry

Couder, Johan; Verbruggen, Aviel

doi:10.1007/1-4020-3356-7_15

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“…Therefore, intuitively we probably all know what an indicator is. From a theoretical perspective more clarity is useful because definitions and terminology vary considerably (for example a variable, a parameter, a measure, a value, a meter, metrics, a measuring instrument, an index, something, a piece of information, representation, a proxy [22,67,74,76,77], which is particularly confusing [78].…”

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Sustainability Assessment and Indicators: Tools in a Decision-Making Strategy for Sustainable Development

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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.

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confidence: 99%