Millennium Institute: Indicators

[Steve Kurtz]

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Title: Millennium Institute: Indicators

Internet Resources on Indicators

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• Alta Vista search: +indicators environmental sustainability
  http://altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&what=web&fmt=.&q=%2Bindicators+environmental+sustainability

• A Survey of Work on Sustainability Indicators from Australia's DPIE.
  http://www.dpie.gov.au/dpie/cpd/e_annex1.html

• CIAT-UNEP's Environmental and Sustainability Indicators Project. See their Regional Roster of Experts and Institutions working on Environmental and Sustainability Indicators.
  http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/land/indicators/project.html
  http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/land/indicators/list.html

• ECCO - Evolution of Capital Creation Options, from the University of Edinburgh, is a procedure for determining the growth potential of an economic system in the context of user-defined policies, environmental objectives, and technology options. ECCO projects include "Environmental Indicators" and "Natural Capital Accounting".
  http://www.ed.ac.uk/~rodrigo/

• European Partners for the Environment; see their page on . Sustainable Development Indicators
  http://www.epe.be/EPE/epe.html
  http://www.epe.be/Interuniv/Main/html/EcologyIndicators.html

• Habitat's Urban Indicators Program
  http://www.undp.org/un/habitat/indicators

• IECDD World*Data Indicators from the World Bank.
  http://www.worldbank.org/html/iecdd/netcdlst.htm

• The Index of Watershed Indicators ("The IWI" or "Index") (version 1.0) will soon be released by the EPA Office of Water.
  http://www.epa.gov/surf/iwiprev.html

• Indicators of Sustainability from Maureen Hart. A superb site which provides good conceptual background information on indicators (e.g., traditional vs. sustainable economic indicators) and a wealth of information on who is collecting what kinds of information for "sustainable community" indicators.
  http://www.subjectmatters.com/indicators/

• Indicators of Sustainability: Interim Report from the Thomas Jefferson Sustainability Council in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
  http://monticello.avenue.gen.va.us/Gov/TJPDC/indicat.html
  http://monticello.avenue.gen.va.us/Gov/TJPDC/sustain.html

• Land Quality Indicators Information System at CIESIN.
  http://www.ciesin.org/lqi-is/lqihome.html

• Land Quality Indicators Program at the World Bank.
  http://www-esd.worldbank.org/lqi/home.htm

• London Electricity's Environmental Report on Sustainability Indicators.
  http://www.london-electricity.co.uk/environmental_report/sustainability.htm

• Measurement and Indicators for Sustainable Development from Canada's International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). See also their Hot Topic on Sustainable Development Indicators.
  http://iisd1.iisd.ca/measure/
  http://iisd1.iisd.ca/ic/info/ss9504.htm

• Monitoring Environmental Progress is a report on the World Bank's work to develop a set of environmental indicators.
  http://www-esd.worldbank.org/html/esd/env/publicat/mep/mep.htm

• Monitoring Environmental Progress and the MEP Database Query Interface.
  http://www.ciesin.org/mep/mepindex.html

• Problems and fundamentals of sustainable development indicators by Dr. Gordon Mitchell.
  http://www.lec.leeds.ac.uk/research/keysdi.html

• Rescue Mission: Planet Earth -- a youth Agenda 21 initiative for sustainable development. See their indicators project!
  http://www.shs.net/rescue/
  http://www.shs.net/rescue/Rescue/Indicator%20Project/INDEX.HTM

• Revisiting Carrying Capacity: Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability, by William E. Rees, The University of British Columbia, 1996,
  http://dieoff.org/page110.htm

• The State Environmental Goals and Indicators Project (SEGIP) is a joint project of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Florida Center for Public Management. It goal is to help state environmental agencies improve their environmental management capabilities by providing assistance with the development and use of environmental goals and indicators. See especially their Links to Other Environmental Indicator Resources.
  http://www.fsu.edu/~cpm/segip.html
  http://www.fsu.edu/~cpm/segip/envirolink.html

• State of World Population from UNFPA has tables of demographic, social, and economic indictors.
  http://www.unfpa.org/swp97e/toc.html

• Trends from Facing the Future provides thoughtful analysis of the impacts of the population trends facing humanity.
  http://www.facingthefuture.org/trends.html

• UNCHS Indicators -- The Habitat Indicators Programme.
  http://www.unchs.unon.org/unon/unchs/indicat/indihome.htm

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25 July 1997