OTHER MEASURING SYSTEMS
NATIONAL
UK
Headline Indicators
The
United Kingdom has evolved a reporting system that includes local, regional, 147
national and 15 key ‘headline’ indicators of sustainable development.
State
of the Environment – Norway
Norway
has been a long-time state of the environment reporter. Its focus is on
environment rather than sustainability reporting.
State
of the Environment – South Africa
This
report deals not only with the traditional physical environmental conditions,
but includes social, economic and political environments, making it more of a
sustainability report.
The
Ecological Footprint
The Ecological Footprint measures what we consume of nature. It shows how much
productive land and water we occupy to produce all the resources we consume and to take in all the waste we make.
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The Living Planet Index is a measure of the natural wealth of the earth's forests, freshwater ecosystems and oceans and coasts. Developed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, it is being used in conjunction with the Ecological Footprint to produce the WWF's Living Planet Report.
Genuine
Progress Indicator
Developed in 1995 by Redefining Progress, the GPI starts with the same accounting
framework as the GDP, but adds the economic contributions of household and
volunteer work, and subtracts factors such as crime, pollution, and family
breakdown. The Nova Scotia research group GPI Atlantic
is applying the GPI model to
Nova Scotia as a pilot project for Canada. Alberta
Sustainability Trends
is a similar project being undertaken by the Pembina Institute.
Pilot
analysis of global ecosystems
This
project of the World Resources Institute provides a "big picture" view
of ecosystems using indicators and maps at global and continental scales.
The
Dashboard of Sustainability
This visual tool is based on an aircraft instrument panel and is designed to
inform decision-makers, the media and the general public on the status of a
nation's progress toward, or away from, sustainability.
Calvert-Henderson
Quality of Life Indicators
This system
for measuring quality of life is for the United States. The indicators include:
Employment, education, shelter, public safety, national security,
infrastructure, income, human rights, health, environment and energy and
recreation.
Wellbeing
Assessment
The Wellbeing Assessment is a method of assessing sustainability that gives
people and the ecosystem equal weight. It combines a series of indicators into
four indices: a Human Wellbeing Index, Ecosystem Wellbeing Index, Wellbeing
Index, and Wellbeing/Stress Index—the ratio of human wellbeing to ecosystem
stress. Together, these four indices provide a measurement of sustainable
development.
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