Quantitative Assessment of Sustainability and Sustainable Development Principles, Processes, and Challenges /

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. Sustainability (SU) and sustainable development (SD) are critical for survival of humanity, but fraught with b...

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Glavni avtor: Singh, Ashok K. (Author)
Korporativna značnica: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Elektronski eKnjiga
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.
Izdaja:1st ed. 2025.
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Online dostop:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-83852-1
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Kazalo:
  • 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.