CHAPTER 6

Measures and Indicators of Sustainability

Introduction

So far, we have discussed a number of conceptual issues of sustainable development and indicated some of the ambiguities and complexities that characterize the process. It is important that, despite these ambiguities and complexities, we should be able to find some indicators and measures that at least help us understand whether a community or a country or the entire world is moving in the right direction. Obviously, these indicators and measures must go beyond measuring the purely economic and be able to capture social and environmental aspects too. Broadly speaking, there are two different ways of looking at these indicators. The first approach is to look at it in terms of macro ...

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