Context The sustainability of urban areas is essential to the sustainability of regions, nations,
and the world as a whole. Urban sustainability indicators (USIs) can play an important role in …

To better manage our environment, systematic information is needed on the state of
ecosystems and their interactions with society. Efforts have been undertaken to design …

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This paper develops a methodology for identifying that natural capital—called critical natural
capital (CNC)—the maintenance of which is essential for environmental sustainability. By …

In this paper, we explain how the latest international handbook on environmental
accounting, the System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting or SEEA …

Historically, economic development has been strongly correlated with increasing energy use
and growth of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Renewable energy (RE) can help …

Countries still lack adequate metrics to monitor environmental sustainability across a range
of relevant environmental and resource issues. The Strong Environmental Sustainability …

Urban man-made assets have impacts not just on those who develop, build and operate
them, but on people who may be quite remote from them. For example, the impact of a …

The concept of capital derives from economics, whereby capital stocks (assets) provide a
flow of goods and services, which contribute to human well-being. An important framing for …

Materials flow analysis (MFA) is internationally recognized as a key tool to assess the
biophysical metabolism of societies and to provide aggregated indicators for environmental …