Designing Sustainability Indicator Frameworks for Information Flow: A Case Study of B-Sustainable |
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Authors: | Viki Sonntag |
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Institution: | (1) EcoPraxis and Sustainable Seattle, 1402 Third Avenue, Suite 430, Seattle, WA 98101, USA |
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Abstract: | In the early 1990s, community indicators gained currency as a principal means of turning visions of sustainability into action.
In the intervening years, indicator projects have been launched by communities the world over to guide and measure progress
towards sustainability, but their effectiveness in serving this purpose has also been questioned. These critiques have focused
attention on how information is organized within indicator systems in addition to the content and quality of the information
itself. This case study draws on the work of Sustainable Seattle, an early pioneer in developing community indicators through
participatory processes, to create a next-generation sustainability indicators system, the B-Sustainable Information Commons.
The study aims to make the framework’s design explicit according to its purposes by reflexively analyzing the design in relation
to the theory and practice of framework development. The framework’s most ambitious goal is to stimulate “information flows”
that will lead to collective understandings of emerging sustainability patterns. |
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