13 Conclusions - Sustainability Indicators In Practice: Lessons Learned From The Past, Directions For The Future

Agnieszka E Latawiec and Dorice Agol

This book presents various case studies from around the world and we hope that for the reader it will serve as a handbook for lessons learned on practical use of sustainability indicators. Evaluating development projects using sustainability indicators continues to be a dynamic research field and those practicing sustainability are also creating it. As emerged from many of the case studies discussed here, there is rarely, if at all, an ideal indicator that fully encompasses all the desired qualities and features of ‘a perfect indicator’. Indicators are always subject to controversy, subjectivity ...

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