Sustainability Assessment: Introduction and Framework
Sustainability Assessment: Introduction and Framework
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可持续性评估：简介和框架
DOI：
10.1017/9781108574334.003
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发表时间：
2020
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通讯作者：
C. Binder
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作者：
P. Halla;C. Binder
可持续发展概念在一般社会讨论以及各种公共和私营部门行为者的战略中的重要性和紧迫性不断增强。然而，尽管这个概念很突出，理解可持续性的含义和要求仍然是一项艰巨的任务。这不仅是由于衡量可持续性可能存在技术困难，更根本的是因为这一概念本身已被证明具有高度争议性，并且难以准确定义。为此，出现了多种方法来促进可持续发展相关知识的创建，并通过将可持续发展的抽象概念转化为更具体的目标和战略来协助决策。这些方法借鉴了广泛的科学学科的见解、概念和工具。在此背景下，可持续性评估（以下简称SA）的概念越来越受到科学界的关注（见图1.1）。然而，关于SA的文献对其含义和特征并没有表现出统一的理解。因此，有必要首先澄清本卷上下文中 SA 的含义。具体来说，这里认为 SA 最好被认为是一个以一组目标和原则为特征的总括术语，因此包括许多可能的方法和测量工具，可以根据当前的具体问题来应用。尽管 SA 的实际应用存在这种多样性，但仍可以检测 SA 的许多相关维度，代表可用于 SA 流程设计和分析的主题和问题。
The concept of sustainability has been steadily increasing in salience and urgency in general societal discourses, as well as in the strategies of various public-and privatesector actors. Despite the prominence of this concept, however, understanding the meaning and requirements of sustainability continues to be a formidable task. This is not only due to possible technical difficulties involved in measuring sustainability, but even more fundamentally because the concept itself has proven to be highly contestable and elusive to precise definition. In response, a myriad of approaches has emerged for facilitating the creation of sustainability-relevant knowledge, and for assisting decision-making by translating the abstract concept of sustainability into more concrete goals and strategies. These approaches draw from the insights, concepts, and tools of a wide spectrum of scientific disciplines. In this context, the concept of sustainability assessment (hereafter SA) has been receiving increasing scientific attention (see Figure 1.1).However, literature on SA does not display a uniform understanding of its meaning and characteristics. Therefore, it is essential to begin by clarifying what SA is taken to mean in the context of this volume. Specifically, it is argued here that SA is best thought of as an umbrella term characterized by a set of aims and principles, and as such includes many possible methods and measurement tools that can be applied depending on the specific problems at hand. Despite this variety in the actual applications of SA, it is possible to detect a number of pertinent dimensions of SA, representing topics and questions that can be used in the design and analysis of SA processes.