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Tomás Hák

Tomás Hák is Deputy Director and Head of the Indicator Unit at the Charles University Environment Center in Prague. He is a member of the Board of Society for Sustainable Living and the Czech Society for the Environment.

Sustainability Indicators

Sustainability Indicators

A Scientific Assessment

While the concept of sustainability has been widely embraced, it has been only vaguely defined and is exceedingly difficult to measure. Sustainability indicators are critical to making the broad concept of sustainability operational by providing specific measures by which decision makers and the public can judge progress.
 
Sustainability Indicators defines the present state of the art in indicator development. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the science behind various indicators, while placing special emphasis on their use as communications tools.