Socio-Ecological Indicators

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Socio-Ecological Indicators Planning Process
Indicators
Socio-Ecological Indicators
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Socio-Ecological Indicators Planning Process
Indicators
Socio-Ecological Indicators
Planning Process Indicators
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In what ways can Backcasting from Sustainability
Principles (a strategic and whole systems
perspective) inform the design of community
indicators?
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What did we do?

1. Formulated an Indicator Design Process
2. Implemented the process to develop a set of
   indicators to track a communitys planning process

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Indicator Design Process

• Success Criteria
• Distinct
• Necessary
• Sufficient
• Concrete
• General
• Current Reality
• Indicator Brainstorm
• Evaluate Indicators

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Implementation Community Planning

• Expert Panel
• International Institute for Sustainable
  Development
• The Natural Step - Canada
• Federation of Canadian Municipalities
• Town of Cochrane
• Sustainability consultant

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Implementation Success Criteria
The planning process must ... apply
Backcasting from the Sustainability Principles
have committed leadership be participatory
be iterative and adaptive be efficient and
timely be transparent
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• Implementation Current Reality  Gaps

• Community engagement?

• Departmental segregation

• Reactionary initiatives

• Shared understanding

• Lack of strategy

• Few sustainability policies

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Implementation Brainstorming Evaluating
Indicators

• Average level of public satisfaction in quality
  of participation activities in the past year.
  (1-5 not satisfied to very satisfied)

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Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development
Generic Model for Indicator Design

Sustainable Community Planning

6 Success Criteria 18 Process Indicators
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Final Results

• Indicator design process for various projects
• An outline of an ideal planning process
• Set of Indicators to track a planning process

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Next Steps

• Canadian Sustainability Indicators Network
  Sept 30
• Publication
• Further Research
• Testing Success Criteria and PPIs
• Tracking PPIs links to SEIs
• Testing indicator design process outside of
  community context

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Validity Who can use this?

• Indicator Design Process?
• Success Criteria Indicators?

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Questions?
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How does this relate to sustainability
practitioners and community change agents?

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We gotta keep score when we do this we have to
be honest. And we have to be relaxed about the
fact that not everything we do will work. Itll
be a terrible thing if we get three years down
the road and people say, oh, you inflated your
progress, you didnt keep score. Bill Clinton,
USGBC Greenbuild Conference, 2007
Conclusion

Justification Our research How it relates to you
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Thank You!

• RESOURCES
• Researchers Email indicators4success_at_gmail.com
• Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability
  http//www.bth.se/tmslm  
• Natural Step Canada www.naturalstep.ca
• Whistler 2020 www.whistler2020.ca
• Sustainable Development Indicators Proposals for
  a Way Forward, Lázló Pintér, Peter Hardi, and
  Peter Bartelmus
• The Natural Step for Communities, Sarah James and
  Torbjorn Lahti

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The Natural Step

• International NGO
• Scientific approach
• Holistic, generic framework
• Strategic advice education
• Leadership and role models
• Innovative tools and services
• Networks partnerships

? 2008 The Natural Step