Overview
- Evaluates the progress, but also the limitations and drawbacks of the status quo of sustainability measurement
- Examines and compares the key features of sustainability measurement systems
- Provides an overview of current approaches to measuring sustainability
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Conceptual Context of Sustainability
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Towards the Measurement of Sustainability
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Mapping Sustainability Measurement
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Challenges Ahead
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About this book
This book explores modern approaches to sustainability and its measurement. It thoroughly reviews a wide range of existing sustainability measurement systems. Accordingly, the book documents the state of progress toward sustainability measurement by first assessing the past development of wellbeing measurement going beyond GDP and synthesizing the various conceptual approaches to sustainability and its dimensions. It then explores crucial methodological aspects that stay at the core of constructing a sound index system. In the main part of the book, we map the available indices or index systems, their conceptual and methodological backgrounds as well as approaches, which have not yet resulted in an index, but have the potential to contribute to a better understanding of sustainability. More specifically, the book assesses the scope, motivation, and potential usage of each index. It also documents their limitations and drawbacks. This mapping exercise is useful for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners as it offers a detailed and compact overview of where we are and what we still need to account for when measuring sustainability.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Agnieszka Gehringer is a professor of economics at TH Köln University of Applied Sciences and a senior research analyst at the Flossbach von Storch Research Institute, Germany. She is also a lecturer at the University of Göttingen. She has published several articles in academic journals on innovation economics, productivity, international trade, and finance.
Susann Kowalski is a professor at TH Köln University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and has been teaching courses on intercultural competencies and management as well as personal development, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels for over 20 years. Since 2020, she has been working on the Sustainable Society Index (SSI) and conducting research on sustainability issues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mapping Sustainability Measurement
Book Subtitle: A Review of the Approaches, Methods, and Literature
Authors: Agnieszka Gehringer, Susann Kowalski
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47382-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47381-4Published: 03 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-47384-5Due: 03 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-47382-1Published: 02 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 162
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 78 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Growth, Development Studies, Environmental Economics, Sustainable Development