Gibson, Robert B., 1950-

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.

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Sustainable development.

HC79.E5 / G513 2005

338.9/27