A Pathway to Linking Risk and Sustainability Assessments

A Pathway to Linking Risk and Sustainability Assessments

The US National Research Council recently released a report promoting sustainability assessment as the future of environmental regulation. Thirty years earlier, this organization (under the same senior author) had issued a similar report promoting risk assessment as a new method for improving the science behind regulatory decisions. Tools for risk assessment were subsequently developed and adop...

A new framework for urban sustainability assessments: Linking complexity, information and policy

Urban systems emerge as distinct entities from the complex interactions among social, economic and cultural attributes, and information, energy and material stocks and flows that operate on different temporal and spatial scales. Such complexity poses a challenge to identify the causes of urban environmental problems and how to address them without causing greater deterioration. Planning has tra...

New Frameworks for Urban Sustainability Assessments: Linking Complexity, Information and Policy

The Sustainability Balanced Scorecard – Linking Sustainability Management to Business Strategy

The Balanced Scorecard of Kaplan and Norton is a management tool that supports the successful implementation of corporate strategies. It has been discussed and considered widely in both practice and research. By linking operational and non-financial corporate activities with causal chains to the firm’s long-term strategy, the Balanced Scorecard supports the alignment and management of all corpo...

Linking Sustainability with Demand, Gender and Poverty LINKING SUSTAINABILITY WITH DEMAND, GENDER AND POVERTY

An international partnership to help the poor gain sustained access to improved water supply and sanitation services A study in community-managed water supply projects in 15 countries