Quantitative Assessment of Sustainability and Sustainable Development

Principles, Processes, and Challenges

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

This volume discusses and analyses the use of quantitative indicators to assess sustainability across sectors, with the goal of offering readers the tools to choose and validate indicators. That is why, in spite of plenty indicators currently available, there is a need to validate existing or new indicators to assess sustainability.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-26
Mått:155 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt:1 012 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:490
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031838514

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The author, Ashok K. Singh, is an associate professor in the department of Veterinary Population Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus. He has earned MS and PhD (research in protein hormones) in Biochemistry from Banaras Hindu University in India and PhD (research in Neuro-Adrenal Toxicity) from Simon Fraser University, Canada. His academic interests include Analytical and mechanistic toxicology, Alcohol addiction and toxicity, Human impacts on the Planet’s health in Anthropocene, Sustainability and Sustainable Development, and Post sustainability development.

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction.- 2 Principles and Characterization of Sustainability Assessment.- 3 Indicators and Indices for Sustainability Assessment.- 4 Analytical Criteria for Selection of Sustainability Indicators.- 5 Remote Sensing of Sustainability.- 6 Thermodynamics-Based Sustainability Indicators.- 7 Assessment of Urban and Rural Sustainability.- 8 Social Sustainability Assessment.- 9 Economic Sustainability I.- 10 Economic Sustainability II.- 11 Assessment of Global and Environmental Sustainability.- 12 Application of Fuzzy Logic Based Multiple-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) Approaches for Assessment of Sustainability.- 13 Conclusions and Future Perspectives.