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Sustainability assessment
• to evaluate sustainability issues (social, economic, environmental) associated with the selected initiatives at farm level.
• An indicator set will be developed, including environmental, social and economic indicators in order to evaluate and compare the different initiatives.
Literature
• Vast• A lot of indicator systems
– environmental• OECD, EEA• Irena • Research projects (AE-Footprint)
– Policy Evaluation• Eurostat (2000), DG Agriculture and Rural
Development (2000) Common criteria..• CMEF
Main points 1
• Stiglitz, Sen, Fitoussi 2009
• Commission on the measurement of economic performance and social progress
• Monetarised but also physical
• CMEF the same
Main points 2
• Indicator based assessment
• Policy oriented assessment
• Multicriteria Analysis
MCA
• Multi-criteria analysis (MCA) techniques
• Participatory approach
• Complex assessment exercises. (ODPM, 2000, Carey et al. 2003; Finn et al., 2009; Knickel et al., 2009; Park et al., 2004; Primdahl et al., 2003).
1st stage
• Identify sustainability issues– Environmental– Social– Economic
• WHO?– Local stakeholders (Scenario building)
2nd stage
• Dimensions X Issues
• WHO?– Local stakeholders (Scenario building)
Sustainability issues identified→
Social: 1. Maintenance of
population2. EquityInstitutional1. Transparency2. Participation
Economic1.
Competitiveness
Environmental……..…….
Technological
Identify changes of trends in technology, artefacts, as well as processes, procedures, ways to do things, e.tc.
Stage 3
Inventory of regional sustainability indicator systems (issue based)
• WHO?
• WP3 Leader + Contribution of (case study) site specific indicators (if available)
Stage 4
• Selection of appropriate indicators/indicator systems
Criteria for selection (Farmpath teams proposed by WP3)
Selection (NSPG)