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A guide to community sustainability indicators

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In this paper, a model is proposed how local sustainability indicators can be developed and how they can help to reduce the complexity of sustainability and to concretize a program for the Local Agenda 21.
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This article is published in Environmental Impact Assessment Review.The article was published on 2000-06-01. It has received 414 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainability organizations & Social sustainability.

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Three pillars of sustainability: in search of conceptual origins

TL;DR: The three-pillar conception of sustainability, commonly represented by three intersecting circles with overall sustainability at the centre, has become ubiquitous as discussed by the authors, however, there is no single point of origin of this threepillar conception, but rather a gradual emergence from various critiques in the early academic literature of the economic status quo from both social and ecological perspectives on the one hand, and the quest to reconcile economic growth as a solution to social problems on the part of the United Nations on the other.
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A Review of Footprint analysis tools for monitoring impacts on sustainability

TL;DR: An overview of the definitions and units of measurement associated with environmental, social, and economic footprints is presented in this paper, where composite footprints combining two or more individual footprints are also assessed.
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A critical review of seven selected neighborhood sustainability assessment tools

TL;DR: In this paper, the issues of sustainability coverage, pre-requisites, local adaptability, scoring and weighting, participation, reporting, and applicability are discussed using a content analysis, and the results of this study indicate that most of the tools are not doing well regarding the coverage of social, economic, and institutional aspects of sustainability.
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A critical comparison of green building rating systems

TL;DR: A systematic review of the development of green rating systems is presented in this article, where the authors identify the similarity, difference, strength and weakness of green ratings, and examine whether they fully assess the projects in all aspects of sustainability.
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Environmental space and the prism of sustainability: frameworks for indicators measuring sustainable development

TL;DR: The notion of Environmental Space is a tool for exploring sustainable development benchmarks on a sound scientific basis, and it is helpful to derive indicators of sustainable development for different applications on the macro as well as on the micro level as mentioned in this paper.
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Our common future

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Sustainability and the wealth of nations : first steps in an ongoing journey

TL;DR: The position of the World Bank concerning sustainability and the wealth of nations is described in this article, where the authors discuss the Bank's efforts to more rigorously define the concept of sustainability, to make it more operational, and to take it into account in all areas of public policy.
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Consuming Cities: the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio declaration

TL;DR: In this article, the Rio Earth Summit and subsequent global initiatives have been discussed, including the role of cities as consumers of the world's environment, and the right-wing reaction in United States against global environmentalism.
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