Mapping Sustainability Measurement

A Review of the Approaches, Methods, and Literature

AvAgnieszka Gehringer,Susann Kowalski

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-04
Mått:178 x 254 x 11 mm
Vikt:366 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Sustainable Development Goals Series
Antal sidor:162
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031473845

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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.

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Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Conceptual context of sustainability.- Chapter 2. From economic welfare through a broader wellbeing to sustainability.- Chapter 3. Delimitating sustainability and its dimensions.- Part II. Towards the measurement of sustainability.- Chapter 4. An in-depth exploration of the three sustainability dimensions based on the SDGs.- Chapter 5. What features should a sound index system have?.- Chapter 6. A case study of the Sustainable Society Index (SSI).- Part III. Mapping sustainability measurement.- Chapter 7. Methodology.- Chapter 8. Results of the mapping exercise.- Part IV. Challenges ahead.- Chapter 9. Quality assessment of the existing sustainability measurement systems.- Chapter 10. Conclusion.