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The Social Indicators Movement: Progress, Paradigms, Puzzles, Promise and Potential Research Directions. [PDF]

open access: yesSoc Indic Res, 2018
This paper is a response to the article entitled “Fifty years after the Social Indicators Movement: Has the promise been fulfilled?” by Ken Land and Alex Michalos (2015) which constitutes a careful review of the historical development of the Social ...
Shek DTL, Wu FKY.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Potential of Using Night-Time Light to Proxy Social Indicators for Sustainable Development

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2023
Satellite-observed night-time light (NTL) data provide a measure of the lighting brightness seen from space at different times and spatial and temporal resolutions, thus offering opportunities to explore them in many applications at different spatial ...
Ana Andries   +6 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Social Vulnerability Indicators for Flooding in Aotearoa New Zealand

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Social vulnerability indicators are a valuable tool for understanding which population groups are more vulnerable to experiencing negative impacts from disasters, and where these groups live, to inform disaster risk management activities.
Kylie Mason   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

THE ROLE OF STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT APPLIED STUDY ON SOME NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY OF CAIRO [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Science, 2022
The research aims to identify the importance and role of standards of excellence in the development of environmental administrations in some local neighborhoods in the environmental governorate of Cairo.
Marwa H. I. Essa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatial analysis of urban poverty model with emphasis on social indicators and factors affecting its organization, a case study: Ardabil City [PDF]

open access: yesجغرافیای اجتماعی شهری, 2021
Objective: The trend of urbanization in developing countries has been faced with spatial imbalances, polarization of regions and social groups, and unstable urban growth.
Rasoul Ghorbani, Parvin Dadazade Silabi
doaj   +1 more source

Social Life Cycle Assessment in the Construction Industry: Systematic Literature Review and Identification of Relevant Social Indicators for Carbon Reinforced Concrete

open access: yesEnvironment, Development and Sustainability, 2023
This article deals with the application of social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) in the construction sector and explicitly focuses on carbon reinforced concrete (CRC).
Jana Gerta Backes, M. Traverso
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Framework to Assess Social Indicators in a Circular Economy Perspective

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
The thriving circular economy is expected to contribute to all three dimensions of sustainable development: environmental, economic, and social. This paper aims to propose a framework to assess social indicators to support circular business models.
A. Bianchini   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Why Trust Raoult? How Social Indicators Inform the Reputations of Experts

open access: yesSocial Epistemology, 2022
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the considerable challenge of sourcing expertise and determining which experts to trust. Dissonant information fostered controversy in public discourse and encouraged an appeal to a wide range of social indicators of ...
T. Branch, G. Origgi, T. Morisseau
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Developing Farm-Level Social Indicators for Agri-Environment Schemes: A Focus on the Agents of Change

open access: yesSustainability, 2021
Most monitoring and evaluation programmes for agri-environment schemes focus on understanding the environmental outcomes and the cost-effectiveness of these schemes.
J. Mills   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Spatial analysis of social indicators resilience of urban areas in four districts of the Kerman city [PDF]

open access: yesجغرافیای اجتماعی شهری, 2018
Objective: The "resilient city pattern" has been proposed as a new strategy to reduce urban vulnerability to scientific circles. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate the social resilience indicators in four areas of Kerman.
Mohsen Kamandari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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