Sustainability Assessment: Criteria and Processes | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert B. Gibson, Selma Hassan, Susan Holtz, James Tansey, Graham Whitelaw
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 176385
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 1844070514
Dewey Decimal Number: 338.927
EAN: 9781844070510
ASIN: 1844070514
Publication Date: December 2005
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Product Description
* The first book to tackle the complexities of sustainability assessment and provide practical solutions
* Comprehensive analysis, guidance, and criteria for impact assessment professionals and policymakers at all levels and in all circumstances
* Applicable to the new EU Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive and other international assessment systems
Many governments express commitments to sustainability, yet until now assessing sustainability in projects, plans, programs, and policies has been largely limited to traditional environmental assessment (EA) with an imperfect attempt to staple on biophysical and socio-economic considerations. While traditional EA focuses on mitigating negative effects, achieving true sustainability demands that each new undertaking make a positive contribution to desirable and durable futures. This onerous goal can only be achieved if decisionmakers are able to consciously and publicly specify and use sustainability-centered criteria to justify options and to weigh trade-offs.
Sustainability Assessment covers all aspects of the core requirements of sustainability including the creation of basic criteria, handling trade-offs, practicalities in application, implications for process design and uses in decisionmaking as well as examining the range of tools and innovative examples available to assist implementation of sustainability assessment.
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