Indicator frameworks are measures that allow assessing how well some system of interest is performing, usually with the intent of improving that performance towards a desired goal.
In terms of sustainability, indicators can help measure important aspects of environmental impact or contribution at the individual, household, organisational, or regional, national, or international level.
Levels of Indicators[edit | edit source]
At the national level, they are potentially an important adjunct alternative to the wikipedia:Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which is criticised for only measuring the level of a countries' economic activity, good or bad, and thus not being useful to measure progress towards Sustainable well-being.
Computer information systems are often helpful for communicating and allowing interaction with a set of indicators. For example, a GIS system could be used to support understanding environmental and other indicators at the city or regional-level.
See also[edit | edit source]
- Sustainable well-being
- Open data (so that citizens can initiate these types of projects independently of governments)
- Extended urban metabolism model
External links[edit | edit source]
National-level indicators[edit | edit source]
- wikipedia:Gross Domestic Product#List of newer approaches to the measurement of.28economic.29 progress
- http://web.archive.org/web/20210308193144/http://www.wikiprogress.org/ is a "global platform for sharing information in order to evaluate social, environmental and economic progress.", whose mission is to "connect worldwide organizations and individuals wishing to develop new, smarter measures of progress."
- The Australian National Development Index is a "collaboration of 40 leading community organizations, church groups, businesses and universities who aim to introduce a holistic measure of progress – an index that reflects the views of Australians in an ongoing, participatory process."
Tools/Methods involving Indicators Frameworks for Urban and Regional Planning[edit | edit source]
Example urban & regional indicator projects[edit | edit source]
- Projects tagged 'indicators' at Orton Planning Tools Exchange
- Boston Indicators Project, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It is linked to the Metro Boston Data Common project, an interesting Open data initiative.
- In Melbourne, Australia, the Australian Institute of Urban Studies (AIUS) has led 2 important indicator projects:
- Also in Melbourne, Community Indicators Victoria provides a variety of measures of community wellbeing, including environmental, aggregated at the local government level.
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