THE ROLE OF EXPERT WORKING PARTIES IN THE SUCCESSFUL DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS
✍ Scribed by Holland, Leigh
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 71 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0961-0405
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✦ Synopsis
To bring about the implementation of Local Agenda 21, local authorities have begun to design sustainability indicators to monitor the progress towards (or away from) sustainable development. The process in Leicester has involved the setting up of specialist working groups (SWGs) on key areas within its urban region. This paper looks at the activities of one such group, the Economy and Work SWG, to assess the process of designing such indicators and examines the way in which the membership of the SWG (its 'experts') influences the choice of indicators. An attempt is made to place the indicators within a framework of sustainability by discussing the various approaches to defining sustainable development at the local level and the difficulty in defining indicators that are applicable to all the facets of such a definition-social, environmental and economic-are highlighted.