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dc.contributor.authorGraymore, Michelle LM
dc.contributor.authorSipe, Neil G
dc.contributor.authorRickson, Roy E
dc.contributor.editorR B Howarth (Editor-in-Chief)
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T16:56:42Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T16:56:42Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2011-11-11T07:24:06Z
dc.identifier.issn0921-8009
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.06.002
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/23440
dc.description.abstractSustainability assessment methods are primarily aimed at global, national or state scales. However, modelling sustainability at finer spatial scales, such as the region, is essential for understanding and achieving sustainability. Regions are emerging as an essential focus for sustainability researchers, natural resource managers and strategic planners working to develop and implement sustainability goals. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of current sustainability assessment methods - ecological footprint, wellbeing assessment, ecosystem health assessment, quality of life and natural resource availability - at the regional scale. Each of these assessment methods are tested using South East Queensland (SEQ) as a case study. It was selected because of its ecological and demographic diversity, its combination of coastal and land management issues, and its urban metropolitan and rural farm and non-farm communities. The applicability of each of these methods to regional assessment was examined using an evaluation criteria matrix, which describes the attributes of an effective method and the characteristics that make these methods useful for regional management and building community capacity to progress sustainability. We found that the methods tested failed to effectively measure progress toward sustainability at the regional scale, demonstrating the need for a new method for assessing regional sustainability. 頲008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom362
dc.relation.ispartofpageto372
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalEcological Economics
dc.relation.ispartofvolume67
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchApplied economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironment and resource economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther economics
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3801
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode380105
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3899
dc.titleRegional sustainability: How useful are current tools of sustainability assessment at the regional scale?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2008
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorRickson, Roy E.


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