Sustainability assessment : criteria and processes. /
Gibson, Robert B., 1950-
Sustainability assessment : criteria and processes. / Robert B. Gibson ; with Selma Hassan ... [et al.]. - London: Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2005. - xii, 254 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
Subtitle on cover: criteria, processes and applications.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-205) and index.
Contents: Beginnings: Stumbling towards sustainability assessment -- Assessment: Thirty- some years of environmental assessment -- Sustainability: The Essentials of the concept -- Practice: Sustainability in illustrative initiatives -- Criteria: Sustainability requirements as the basis for decision making -- Trade- offs: facing conflict and compromise -- Processes: Designing sustainability assessment regimes -- Decisions: Applying sustainability- based criteria in significance determinations and other common assessment judgement -- Continuations: The Way ahead.
1844070506 9781844070503 1844070514 9781844070510
2005018172
Sustainable development.
HC79.E5 G513
338.9/27
Sustainability assessment : criteria and processes. / Robert B. Gibson ; with Selma Hassan ... [et al.]. - London: Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2005. - xii, 254 p.: ill.; 24 cm.
Subtitle on cover: criteria, processes and applications.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-205) and index.
Contents: Beginnings: Stumbling towards sustainability assessment -- Assessment: Thirty- some years of environmental assessment -- Sustainability: The Essentials of the concept -- Practice: Sustainability in illustrative initiatives -- Criteria: Sustainability requirements as the basis for decision making -- Trade- offs: facing conflict and compromise -- Processes: Designing sustainability assessment regimes -- Decisions: Applying sustainability- based criteria in significance determinations and other common assessment judgement -- Continuations: The Way ahead.
1844070506 9781844070503 1844070514 9781844070510
2005018172
Sustainable development.
HC79.E5 G513
338.9/27