SSCI 165Lgw Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Dow Jones Industrial Average, Global Reporting Initiative, Starbucks
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Ssci lecture 33: sustainability indicators: measurement and reporting. Unemployment: things that are not indicators. Benchmark a point of reference or a standard against which measurements can be compared. Index a weighted combination of two or more indicators. Policy output action taken by a government agency. Air pollution regulation released, zoning laws changed. Policy outcome data that reflect actual impact of policy: each of these things may aid or be incorporated in indicators or plans but are not indicators by themselves. # of starbucks: critique of gnp (gross national product) (cid:862) tryi(cid:374)g to run a complex society on a single indicator like the. Gross national product is like trying to fly a 747 with only one gauge o(cid:374) the i(cid:374)stru(cid:373)e(cid:374)t pa(cid:374)el(cid:863) Must also incorporate social and environmental factors: sustainability indicators. Specific indicators or sets of indicators that define, measure, and report on the status of an integrated view of sustainability. Levels of indicators: building (leed, neighborhood, community, city (santa monica)
