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Sustainability Assessment of indicators for integrated water resources management [PDF]
, 2017 The scientific community strongly recommends the adoption of indicators for the evaluation and monitoring of progress towards sustainable development. Furthermore, international organizations consider that indicators are powerful decision-making tools ...
Botero, V +5 more
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City of Ideas: Reinventing Boston's Innovation Economy: The Boston Indicators Report 2012 [PDF]
, 2012 Analyzes indicators of the city's economic, social, and technological progress; potential for creating innovative solutions to global and national challenges; and complexities, disparities, and weaknesses in the indicators and innovation economy ...
Aditi Mehta +2 more
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, 1978 The July 1977 issue of our Commentary suggested that "the East End of Glasgow was the most socially deprived area in the most socially deprived region in Europe - Strathclyde". Coupling this with the popular conception of a prosperous East, one is left with the impression of a dual society in Scotland.
Danson, Michael W. +2 more
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Why social policy needs subjective indicators [PDF]
There are many qualms about subjective indicators, and some people believe that social policy should better not use them. This paper consists of a review of these objections.
Veenhoven, Ruut
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Measuring quality in social care services: theory and practice [PDF]
, 2010 Measuring and assessing service quality in the social care sector presents distinct challenges. The 'experience' good properties of social care, for instance, and the large influence played by subjective judgements about the quality of personal ...
Fernández, José-Luis, Malley, Juliette
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Social impacts of the development of science, technology and innovation indicators [PDF]
This paper examines the social impacts of the development of science, technology and innovation indicators. The approach deals separately with the development process and with the use of the indicators that result.
Gault, Fred
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A tool for sustainability impact assessment (ToSIA)of forest-wood chains linked with a database of sustainability indicators collected within the EFORWOOD project [PDF]
, 2009 Within the EFORWOOD project new approaches to assess the sustainability impacts of forest-wood chains (FWC) using indicators of environmental, social and economic sustainability were ...
Cerny, Martin +10 more
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Revista de Administração Pública, 2008 Este artigo analisa a eficiência dos gastos públicos nos municípios fluminenses no período 1999/2000, por meio da aplicação da análise envoltória de dados.
Flavia Peixoto Faria +2 more
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The Strength of Association: Population Density and Social Deviance [PDF]
, 2005 This issue is the second of three in Series 3a, "The Strength of Community-level Rates of Association," mapping Anchorage neighborhood characteristics by census block area, highlighting the correlation or lack of correlation between those characteristics
Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage
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Patterns of welfare state indicators in the EU: Is there convergence? [PDF]
Convergence of social protection objectives and policies in member states is an explicit objective of the EU. Earlier research has shown that there has indeed been a tendency of convergence of social protection levels over the last decades.
Caminada, Koen +2 more
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