... Party (Box 4. 4).
The indicators in the above-mentioned examples show progress or regress in the
particular areas they represent. They do not show the relative significance of any
specific area or ... respective frameworks.
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72 4 Statistics and Indicators
4. 2 From Statistics to Indicators ‘for’ Sustainable
Develop...
...
natural assets X
P 7,577 3,075 713 48 ,295 208 59,868
HH 2, 645 11 700 3,356
D CAP
49 ,252 281
b
20 56 0 49 ,609
Total mate-
rial supply
a
59 ,47 4 3,356 744 49 ,051 208 112,833
Notes:
a
Total material ... increasingly on foreign resources
(op. cit.). Globalization, together with domestic resource depletion, are significant
factors in this outsourcing of natural resource supply (Sec...
... non-declining welfare generation.
In fact, if the welfare package is broad enough, non-decline of welfare can also
be viewed as sustainable development (Mäler, 1991). Note however that the search ...
natural resource stocks or degrading environmental sinks, threatens the sustainability
of economic activities. The key questions, asked repeatedly in this book, are how
close are thes...
... externalities are
positive such as benefits of agriculture for land and landscape conservation. Most
positive effects are however intentional, marked by a plus (+) sign in segment II of
the table.
By ... environmental sinks and (re)sources are sometimes considered to
be public goods (in the public domain): in general, however, only produced (usually by the
government) such g...
... between 1.8 and 4. 0 °C by the end of the century
(Box 4. 5). Plate 4. 1 dramatizes the impact and distribution of global warming by
the third and last decade of the century [FR 4. 5].
Eco–nomics ... discontin-
ued in the EEA 20 04 Signals which present the full set of 30 indicators (http://reports.eea.europa.
eu/signals-20 04/ en/ENSignals2004web.pdf).
Table 4. 4 Framework for S...