Spectra and Specifications of Systematization

Sustainability assessments are crucial for sustainability-focused decisions. The variety of assessment approaches and situations is highly diverse. Approach selection is vital as not every assessment approach is suitable to every assessment situation. Unsuited selection leads to incomprehensive or u...

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Published in:International journal of sustainability policy and practice 2020-01, Vol.16 (1), p.15
Main Authors: Bitter, Jan, Janssen, Daniela, Vossen, René, Hees, Frank
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Criteria
Cybernetics
Decision making
Specifications
Spectra
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Systems
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Summary:Sustainability assessments are crucial for sustainability-focused decisions. The variety of assessment approaches and situations is highly diverse. Approach selection is vital as not every assessment approach is suitable to every assessment situation. Unsuited selection leads to incomprehensive or unusable results. Systematization criteria and frameworks facilitate approach selection. Existing concepts commonly focus on the supply-side, i.e., available approaches, without considering the demand-side, i.e., assessment situations. This work’s goal is to develop quantifiable spectra and specifications for systematization criteria to describe assessment approaches and match them to assessment situations. For that, systematization criteria and requirements for sustainability assessment approaches are linked and a spectrum and specifications for each criterion are developed. This facilitates a systematic, quantified description, comparison and selection of sustainability assessment approaches.
ISSN:2325-1166
2325-1182
DOI:10.18848/2325-1166/CGP/v16i01/15-35