What is the best indicator for my community that could help both the people and the administration better understand the problem of sustainability?
We don’t advocate single indicators in general because the system that is being modeled (a community which has myriad economic, social, and enviromental subsystems) is too complex for one indicator to adequately inform all the decisions that need to be made. However, if you are looking for a single indicator as an awareness building tool, the Ecological Footprint is a very good choice. Although it is called an ‘ecological’ footprint, in fact the footprint is really an estimate of the amount of the earth’s resources that a person or community’s economic activity is taking up. If you can show the difference in the size of ecological footprint for people with different incomes or lifestyle levels, you also get a social component to the measure, particularly when there is a wide disparity in consumption levels. The ecological footprint is not a perfect indicator, but then, there are no perfect indicators. We can’t wait for the most perfect indicators because we will never have any. For mor
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