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| List of Figures, Tables and Boxes | |
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| List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Bad Application of Good Science? | |
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| Sustainability and Sustainability Indicators | |
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| Introduction and objectives | |
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| Two roots of sustainability | |
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| The meaning of sustainability | |
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| Space and time in sustainability | |
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| System quality | |
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| Sustainability in practice | |
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| Indicators of ecosystem health | |
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| Sustainability indicators and indices | |
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| Sustainability indicators: A realistic and reasonable approach to measuring sustainability? | |
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| Sustainability Indicators in Practice | |
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| Introduction and objectives | |
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| Maximum sustainable yield | |
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| Problems with applying maximum sustainable yield | |
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| Maximum sustainable yield as a sustainability indicator | |
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| Sustainability indicators in marine ecosystems: The AMOEBA approach | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Indicators, Cities, Institutions and Projects | |
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| Introduction and objectives | |
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| Sustainable communities | |
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| Institutional sustainability | |
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| Projects, appraisal and sustainability | |
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| The Application of Grounded and Pragmatic Systemisism | |
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| Paradigms and Professionals | |
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| Introduction and objectives | |
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| Changes in thinking: From science to systems | |
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| The demise of narrow scientism | |
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| Systems approaches to problem-solving | |
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| A range of systems approaches | |
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| A problem-solving approach: The soft systems method | |
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| Problem description: The learning organization approach | |
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| Appraisal: The participatory rural appraisal approach | |
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| Project handling: The logframe approach | |
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| An overview of systemic approaches | |
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| New definitions and new thinking: Holism, eclecticism, systemisism and future casting | |
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| Emerging premises for SI development | |
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| Projects and Sustainability Indicators | |
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| Introduction and objectives | |
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| The project scenario for SIs | |
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| The stakeholder scenario for SIs: Participation and coalition | |
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| Accommodating multiple views of sustainability | |
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| Introducing the systemic sustainability analysis idea: The Imagine Approach | |
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| Imagine: An Example of a Systemic Sustainability Analysis | |
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| Introduction and objectives | |
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| The beginning of the process - understand the context | |
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| Identify the main SIs and the band of equilibrium | |
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| The development of AMOEBA and scenario-making | |
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| Review and meta-scenario-making | |
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| Publicity, publicizing and marketing the message - influencing policy | |
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| Conclusion: Renewing the cycle | |
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| Where Next? Humility and Honesty | |
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| Sustainability Indicators: The Rhetoric and the Reality | |
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| Introduction and objectives | |
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| Managing expectation in the projectified world order | |
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| Organic and empowering approaches compared to inorganic and dehumanizing approaches | |
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| Culture change | |
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| The essential need for reflective practice | |
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| Future research priorities | |
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| Epistemological questions | |
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| The systemic approach | |
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| Participatory SIs in social development projects and research | |
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| Assessment of SIs | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |