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URL http://www.iemss.org/iemss2008/uploads/Main/S11-12-Rink_et_al-IEMSS2008.pdf
Title (Primary) From INGIS to NAMOS - operationalisation and contextualisation of sustainability at the local level
Title (Secondary) iEMSs 2008: International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software. Integrating Sciences and Information Technology for Environmental Assessment and Decision Making
Author Rink, D.; Haase, A.; Kabisch, S.; Haase, D.; Hartmuth, G.
Publisher Sànchez-Marrè, M.; Béjar, J.; Comas, J.; Rizzoli, A.; Guariso, G.
Year 2008
Department CLE; UMB; SUSOZ
Page From 1017
Page To 1024
Language englisch
Keywords sustainability, monitoring; operationalisation; indicators; Leipzig.
Abstract Due to its fuzziness the model of sustainable development has to be particularised
and contextualised before any positioning with respect to the yardstick of
sustainability. Based on a newly put forward conceptualisation of sustainability the
realisation of both postulates is shown within the development of a local indicator
system for two German cities. Initially, problems of urban development were
identified in a bottom-up approach by local stakeholders. These problem areas
were contrasted with a set of sustainability rules which had been systematically
derived from the basic sustainability norm, stating minimum requirements for
sustainable development. At the interface of local problems and sustainability rules
indicators had been identified which provide information on whether the city is
over time becoming closer to or farther removed from the respective sustainability
goals in its problem areas. This paper shows how such sustainability monitoring
system can indicate municipal problems and contextualise the sustainability norm
into the administrative structures.
Persistent UFZ Identifier https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=1354
Rink, D., Haase, A., Kabisch, S., Haase, D., Hartmuth, G. (2008):
From INGIS to NAMOS - operationalisation and contextualisation of sustainability at the local level
In: Sànchez-Marrè, M., Béjar, J., Comas, J., Rizzoli, A., Guariso, G. (eds.)
iEMSs 2008: International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software. Integrating Sciences and Information Technology for Environmental Assessment and Decision Making
International Environmental Modelling and Software Society (iEMSs), Manno, p. 1017 - 1024