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Monitoring for sustainable development : a systemic framework

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Summary, in English

'Sustainable development' is a widely used, but less practised, complex term. Using the idea of 'Viability Loops' (VL) based on a System Dynamics (SD) approach and considering sustainability as an ideal for development efforts, this paper argues that sustainable development should be considered as an unending process rather than a state. Thus, a systemic framework is proposed to 'monitor' systems for sustainable development, rather than 'measuring' their sustainability. Then, it is shown that a set of theoretically anticipated VL, in the form of a market-technology balancing mechanism, do not function in practice owing to a lack and/or distortion of information.

Publishing year

2005

Language

English

Pages

280-301

Publication/Series

International Journal of Sustainable Development

Volume

8

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Inderscience Publishers

Topic

  • Water Engineering

Keywords

  • sustainability
  • sustainable development
  • viability loops
  • Tehran
  • system dynamics
  • monitoring
  • Iran
  • measuring
  • water use

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0960-1406