Sustainability assessment : criteria and processes /
Robert B. Gibson ; with Selma Hassan ... [et al.].
- London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2005.
- xii, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subtitle on cover: criteria, processes and applications.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-205) and index.
Contents: Beginning: stumbling towards sustainability assessment -- Assessment:Thirty-some years of environmental assessment -- Sustainability: The essential of the concept -- Practice: Sustainability in illustrative initiatives -- Criteria:Sustainability requirements as the basics for decision making -- Trade-offs:Conflict and compromise -- Processes:Designing sustainability-based criteria in significance determinations and other common assessment judgements -- Continuations:The way ahead.