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Sustainability Assessment

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Contents

List of Abbreviations

1 Sustainability Assessment of Policy

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Rationale

1.3 Understanding Discourses

2 Sustainability Climate of Policy

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Emergence of Policy Sustainability

2.2.1 Population and Resource

2.2.2 Modernity and Sustainability

2.3 Concept of Sustainability

2.3.1 Steady-State Economy

2.3.2 Carrying Capacity

2.3.3 Ecospace

2.3.4 Ecological Footprints

2.3.5 Natural Resource Accounting/Green Gross Domestic Product

2.3.6 Ecoefficiency

2.4 Sustainability Initiative

3 Characterizing Sustainability Assessment

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Resource System

3.3 Social System

3.4 Global System

3.5 Target Achievement

3.5.1 Detection of Changes

3.5.2 Determining Operation Scale

3.5.3 Harmonizing Operation Sequence

3.6 Accommodating Tradition and Culture

3.7 Selection of Instrument

3.8 Integration of Decision System

3.9 Responding to International Cooperation

4 Considerations of Sustainability Assessment

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Socioeconomic Consideration

4.2.1 Nature of Poverty

4.2.2 Nature of Resource Availability

4.2.3 Nature of Economy

4.2.4 Nature of Capital

4.2.5 Nature of Institutions

4.3 Consideration of System Peculiarities

4.3.1 Temporal Scale

4.3.2 Spatial Scale

4.3.3 Connectivity and Complexity

4.3.4 Accumulation

4.3.5 Nonmarketability

4.3.6 Moral and Ethical Considerations

4.4 Consideration of Component Peculiarities

5 Issues of Sustainability Assessment

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Issues Related to Society

5.2.1 Social Modernization

5.2.2 Societal Relationship

5.2.3 Radicalization and Convergence

5.2.4 Boserupian/Neo-Malthusian Issues

5.2.5 Social Ignorance

5.2.6 Social Attitudes

5.3 Issues Related to Policy Discourse

5.3.1 Discourses of Story Line

5.3.2 Discourses of Disjunction Maker

5.3.3 Discourses of Symbolic Politics

5.3.4 Discourses of Sensor Component

5.4 Issues Related to Actors

5.4.1 Influences of Macroactors

5.4.2 Positioning of Actors

5.4.3 Way of Arguing

5.5 Black Boxing

6 Components of Sustainability Assessment

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Social Adequacy

6.3 Scientific Adequacy

6.4 Status Quo

6.5 Policy Process

6.6 Policy Stimulus

6.7 Participation

6.8 Sectoral Growth

6.9 Resource Exploitation

6.10 Traditional Practices

6.11 Role of Actors

6.12 Framework Assessment

6.13 Scope Evaluation

6.14 Evaluation of Implementation

6.15 Instrument Evaluation

6.16 Structural Evaluation

6.17 Cause Evaluation

6.18 Cost Evaluation

6.19 Impact Assessment

6.20 Quantitative Approach

6.21 Anthropogenic Evaluation

6.22 Influence of Other Policies

7 Linkages of Sustainability Assessment

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Parallel Linkage

7.3 Linkage of Ascendancy

7.4 Linkage of Descendancy

7.5 Linkage of Hierarchy

7.6 Horizontal Linkage

7.7 Quasi-Political Linkages

7.8 External Linkage

7.9 Market Linkage

7.10 Evaluation of Link to the Past

7.11 Actors and Story Line

7.12 Practices and Story Line

7.13 Reflection of Image of Change

7.14 Integrating Information

7.15 Forecasting

7.16 Assessing Options

7.17 Post-Decision Assessment

8 Assessment of Policy Instruments

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Approaches of Implementation

8.3 Attributes of Instrument

8.4 Choice of Instruments

8.5 Instruments as a Component of Policy Design

8.6 Addressing the Implementation of Instruments

9 Social Perspectives of Sustainability

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Participation Evaluation

9.3 Process Evaluation

9.4 Retrospective Policy Evaluation

9.5 Evaluation of Policy Focus

9.6 Deductive Policy Evaluation

9.7 Comparative Modeling

9.8 Deductive Modeling

9.9 Optimizing Perspectives

9.10 Political Perspectives

10 Factors of Sustainability Assessment

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Actor as Policy Factor

10.3 Global Resource Factor

10.4 Local Resource Factors

10.5 Participation Factor

10.6 Participation Catalyst

10.7 Economic Factors

10.7.1 Influence of Macroeconomic Factors

10.7.2 Influence of Microeconomic Factors

10.7.3 Influence of Private Investment

10.7.4 Influence of Public Investment

10.7.5 Influence of Economic Incentives

10.8 Administrative Factor

10.8.1 Right and Tenure

10.8.2 Decentralization

10.8.3 Accessibility

10.9 Market Influence

10.10 Historical Factor

10.11 Other Factors

11 Tools for Sustainability Assessment

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Indicators for Evaluating Resource Dimension

11.2.1 SOR Indicators

11.2.2 NFR Indicators

11.2.3 Effectiveness Indicators

11.2.4 Comparing Indicators of Resources

11.2.5 Explanatory Variables

11.2.6 Tools for Assessing Human Dimension

12 Problems in Sustainability Assessment

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Boundary Problem

12.3 Problem with Social Concern

12.4 Role of Science

12.5 Institutional Difficulty

12.6 Implementation Problem

12.6.1 Circumstances External to the Implementing Agency

12.6.2 Inadequacy of Time, Resources, and Programs

12.6.3 Lack of Understanding Between Cause and Effect

12.6.4 Minimum Dependency Relationship of Decisions

12.6.5 Lack of Understanding of, and Agreement on, Objectives

12.6.6 Policy Tasks not Specified in Correct Sequence

12.6.7 Lack of Perfect Communication and Coordination

12.6.8 Rare Perfect Compliance of Implementing Body

13 Discussion and Recommendation

13.1 Discussion

13.2 Recommendation

13.3 Importance

Summary

References