Sustainable Measures - Written material we recommend

As with all the other resources we have listed here, it is not possible to include everything. So, rather than being complete, we are trying to give you a starting point. Please let us know if there are other documents that we should include.

Writings on Indicators

Bellagio Principles: Guidelines for the Practical Assessment of Progress Towards Sustainable Development. (available at http://iisd1.iisd.ca/measure/bellagio1.htm) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: International Institute for Sustainable Development, 1997.

Balaton Group. Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development-Draft. Plainfield, NH: Balaton Group, 1996.

Cobb, Clifford, Ted Halstead, and Jonathan Rowe. The Genuine Progress Indicator. San Francisco, CA: Redefining Progress, 1995.

Farrell, Alex and Maureen Hart. "What Does Sustainability Really Mean? The Search for Useful Indicators." Environment 40, no. 9 (November 1998): 4-9:26-31.

Green Mountain Institute for Environmental Democracy. The Resource Guide to Indicators: Second Edition. (available at http://www.gmied.org) Montpelier, VT: GMIED, 1998.

Hammond, Allen and others. Environmental Indicators: A Systematic Approach to Measuring and Reporting on Environmental Policy Performance in the Context of Sustainable Development. Washington, D.C: World Resources Institute, 1995.

Hardi, Peter and Lazlo Pinter. Measuring Sustainable Development Performance: Canadian Initiatives: First Survey, November 1994. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: International Institute for Sustainable Development, 1994.

Hardi, Peter and Terrence Zdan (eds). Assessing Sustainable Development: Principles in Practice. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: IISD, 1997.

Hodge, Dr. Tony and Robert Prescott-Allen. Report on British Columbia's Progress Toward Sustainability. British Columbia, Canada: Commission on Resources & Environment, 1997.

Hodge, Dr. Tony and others. Pathways to Sustainability: Assessing Our Progress. Canada: National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, 1995.

Kuik, O. and H. Verbruggen. In Search of Indicators of Sustainable Development. Environment and Management. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.

Maclaren, Virginia W. Developing Indicators of Urban Sustainability: A Focus on the Canadian Experience. Toronto, Canada: ICURR Press, 1996.

Moldan, Bedrich and Suzanne Billharz. Sustainability Indicators. England: John Wiley & Sons, 1997.

President's Council on Sustainable Development. Sustainable Communities Task Force Report. Washington, D.C.: President's Council on Sustainable Development, 1997.

SDI Group. Sustainable Development in the United States: An Experimental Set of Indicators: Interim Draft Report. Washington, D.C: U.S. Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators, 1998.

Scruggs, Patricia and Associates. Proceeding of the Colorado Forum on National and Community Indicators. San Francisco, CA: Redefining Progress, 1996.

United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. From Theory to Practice: Indicators of Sustainable Development. (available at http://www.un.org/esa/sustdeve/indi6.htm): UN, 1998.

Writings on Community Projects and Processes

Alberta Environmental Protection. Steps to Realizing Sustainable Development. 1993.

Alberta Round Table on Environment and Economy Secretariat. Creating Alberta's Sustainable Development Indicators. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Environment Council of Alberta, 1994.

AtKisson, Alan. "The Innovation Diffusion Game: A Tool for Encouraging Participation in Positive Cultural Change-in Your Office, Your Organization, or in the World at Large." In Context, no. 28 (Spring 1991): 58-62.

Bauen, Rebecca, Bryan Baker, and Kirk Johnson. Sustainable Community Checklist: First Edition. Seattle, WA: The Northwest Policy Center; University of Washington, 1996.

Center for a New American Dream. Yearning for Balance: An Action Kit. Tacoma Park, MD: Center for a New American Dream, 1997.

Hempel, Lamont. Roots and Wings: Building Sustainable Communities. Claremont, CA: League of Women Voters Population Coalition, 1996.

Hempel, Lamont. Sustainable Communities From Vision to Action. Claremont, CA: Claremont Graduate University, 1998.

Hempel, Marilyn, ed. Sustainable Communities: Guide for Grassroots Activists. Vol. 4, no. 5. Claremont, CA: Population Press.

Hren, B. and Nick Bartolomeo. Monitoring Sustainability in Your Community. Gaithersburg, MD: Izaak Walton League, 1995.

Roseland, Mark. Toward Sustainable Communities. Gabriola Island, BC and Stony Creek, CT: New Society Publishers, April 1998.

Tyler Norris Associates, Redefining Progress, and Sustainable Seattle. The Community Indicators Handbook. San Francisco, CA: Redefining Progress, 1997.

Writings on Sustainability in General

Abramovitz, Janet N. "Putting a Value on Nature's "Free" Services." World Watch 11, no. 1 (January 1998-February 1998): 10-19.

Berry, Wendell. "Community in 17 Sensible Steps." UTNE Reader (March 1995-April 1995): 71.

Brown, Lester R., Christopher Flavin, and Sandra Postel. "Vision of a Sustainable World." The World Watch Reader on Global Environmental Issues, Editor Lester R. Brown, 299-315. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991.

Brown, Lester R., Gary Gardner, and Brian Halweil. Beyond Malthus: Sixteen Dimensions of the Population Problem. Washington, D.C.: WorldWatch Institute, 1998.

Brown, Lester R., Michael Renner, and Christopher Flavin. Vital Signs 1999 . London, New York: W. W. Norton & Company (WorldWatch Institute), 1999. (or any of the Vital Signs series)

Carley, Michael and Ian Christie. Managing Sustainable Development. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Cohen, J. How Many People Can the Earth Support? New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1995.

Corson, Walter H. ed. The Global Ecology Handbook. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1990.

Daly, Herman E. and John B. Cobb Jr. For the Common Good. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1989.

IUCN, UNEP, and WWP. Caring for the Earth A Strategy for Sustainable Living. Gland, Switzerland: The World Conservation Union (IUCN)/United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 1991.

Meadows, Donnella H, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jorgen Randers. Beyond the Limits. Post Mills, VT: Chelsea Green, 1992.

Minnesota Planning. Sustainable Development: The Very Idea. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Planning Environmental Quality Board, 1998.

Pearce, David, Anil Markandya, and Edward B. Barbier. Blueprint for a Green Economy. London: Earthscan, 1989.

Robert, Karl-Henrik and others. "A Compass for Sustainable Development." The Natural Step News (available at http://www.naturalstep.org, no. 1 (Winter).

Wackernagel, Mathis and William Rees. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1996.

Ward, Barbara and Rene Dubo. Only One Earth-The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet. London: Deutch, 1972.

World Commission on Environment and Development. Our Common Future . New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Writings on Land Use (including farming, forestry)

Bragado, Nancy, Judy Corbett, and Sharon Sprowls. Building Livable Communities: A Policymaker's Guide to Infill Development. Sacramento, CA: Center for Livable Communities, 1995. (CLC has many other titles on the subject)

Brown, Lester R. The Agricultural Link: How Environmental Deterioration Could Disrupt Economic Progress. WorldWatch Paper 136, 1997.

Brown, Lester R. Who Will Feed China? Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995.

Canadian Council of Forest Ministers. Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management in Canada: Technical Report. 1997.

Gardner, Gary. Shrinking Fields: Cropland Loss in a World of Eight Billion. Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute, WorldWatch Paper 131, 1996.

Levins, Dick. Monitoring Sustainable Agriculture with Conventional Financial Data. White Bear Lake, Minn: Land Stewardship Project. 1996.

Sorensen, A. Ann and J. Dixon Esseks. Living on the Edge: The Costs and Risks of Scatter Development. Dekalb, IL: American Farmland Trust and the Northern Illinois University Center for Agriculture in the Environment, 1998.

Sorensen, A. Ann, Richard P. Greene, and Karen Russ. Farming on the Edge. Dekalb, IL: American Farmland Trust and the Northern Illinois University Center for Agriculture in the Environment, 1997.

Writings on Economy and Business

Benner, Chris. Growing Together or Drifting Apart? A Status Report. San Jose, CA: Working Partnerships USA & The Economic Policy Institute, 1998.

Brown, Lester R., Christopher Flavin, and Sandra Postel. Saving the Planet: How to Shape an Environmentally Sustainable Global Economy. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991.

Cobb, Clifford, Ted Halstead, and Jonathan Rowe. "If the GDP Is Up, Why Is America Down?" The Atlantic Monthly 276 (October 1995): 59-78.

Costanza, Robert. Ecological Economics . New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

Dominguez, Joe and Vicki Robin. Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.

Hawkins, Paul. The Ecology of Commerce. New York: Harper Business, 1993.

Kane, Hal. "Income Gap Widens." World Watch 8, no. 6 (March 1996-April 1996): 8-9.

Meter, Ken. Frogtown Neighborhood Income Statement and Balance Sheet: How Capital Flows Through One Low-Income Neighborhood. Minneapolis, MN: Crossroads Resource Center, 1994.

Schor, Juliet. The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumerism. Basic Books, 1998.

Schor, Juliet. The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. New York: Basic Books, 1992.

Writings on Transportation and Energy

Burrington, Stephen H. Road Kill: How Solo Driving Runs Down the Economy. Boston, MA: Conservation Law Foundation, 1994.

Engwicht, David. Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living With Less Traffic. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1993.

Green Mountain Institute for Environmental Democracy. "Indicators for Tracking Energy Use." SYNERGY 3, no. 3 (Summer 1998): 6.

Writings on Material Use (including water)

Abramovitz, Janet N. Imperiled Waters, Impoverished Future: The Decline of Freshwater Ecosystems. WorldWatch Paper 128, 1996.

Adriaanse, Albert and others. Resource Flows: The Material Basis of Industrial Economies. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute, 1997.

Durning, Alan Thein. How Much Is Enough? The Consumer Society and the Future of the World. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1992.

Gardner, Gary. "The Aquifers That Won't Replenish." World Watch 8, no. 3 (May 1995-June 1995): 30-36.

Data

Hall, Bob and Mary Lee Kerr. 1991-1992 Green Index: A State-by-State Guide to the Nation's Environmental Health. Washington, D.C. Island Press, 1991.

United Nations Development Program. Human Development Report. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

US EPA. A Guide to Selected National Environmental Statistics in the U.S. Government. Washington, D.C.: US Environmental Protection Agency, 1993.

US EPA. Indicators of the Environmental Impacts of Transportation. Washington, D.C.: US EPA, 1996.

World Resources Institute. World Resources: The Urban Environment. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. (or any of yearly releases of this world data compendium)

Personal Favorites

Winner, Langdon. The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Berry, Wendell. Home Economics. San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1987.