Embedded value systems in sustainability assessment tools and their implications.

Journal article

This paper explores the implications that arise with the selection of specific sustainability evaluation tools. Sustainability evaluation tools are conceptualized in this paper as value articulating institutions and as such their choice is a far from a trivial matter. In fact their choice can entail various ethical and practical repercussions. However, in most cases the choice of the evaluation tool is made by the analyst(s) without taking into consideration the values of the affected stakeho...

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Authors: Gasparatos, A

• Journal: Journal of environmental management
• Volume: 91
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 1613-1622
• Publication date: 2010-08-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.03.014
• EISSN: 1095-8630
• ISSN: 0301-4797
• Language: English
• Keywords: Risk Assessment; Humans; Decision Making; United States Environmental Protection Agency; United States; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Environmental Health; Decision Support Techniques; Ecology; Program Evaluation; Conservation of Natural Resources; Environment