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Incorporating local sustainability indicators into structures of local governance: a review of the literature

Holman, Nancy (2009) Incorporating local sustainability indicators into structures of local governance: a review of the literature. Local Environment, 14 (4). pp. 365-375. ISSN 1354-9839

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Identification Number: 10.1080/13549830902783043

Abstract

Too often studies about sustainability indicators focus either on the science that goes into indicator development seeking to make them rational and relevant or on the soft impacts such as social capital, community empowerment or capacity building that are outcomes of their use. When attention is turned to what effect they have on policy, it is often difficult to discern any link between their use and policy change. This paper seeks to address this problem by consolidating current thinking on indicators and asking the question: How far have notions of governance been incorporated into current research into indicators? The answer to this question has implications for the continuing utility of indicators as policy tools, not only in so far as they are able to aid the evaluation of policy, but also, and arguably more importantly, in how they are able to facilitate relationships between actors and act a catalyst around which various contested meanings of sustainability can be evaluated.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13549839.as...
Additional Information: © 2009 Taylor & Francis
Divisions: Geography & Environment
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government
Date Deposited: 15 Dec 2010 14:58
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2024 06:27
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/30803

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