Using a multi-criteria decision system, the non-structural fuzzy decision support system (NSFDSS), the weights for each criterion and sub-factors are developed, producing a yardstick for assessing the environmental performance for construction activities at the construction stage.
But environmental groups sharply criticized this kind of yardstick, saying that it merely reflects an existing trend toward using energy more efficiently and adding that as long as the economy grows, this would not result in emissions reductions.
These indicators can be useful in providing measures of population health that can be related to environmental exposures, thereby providing a public health yardstick for measuring environmental progress.
Thus, a certain type of fossil in a rock layer would point to a given time period, a handy geological yardstick by which to measure key environmental events like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or floods.
In other words, there are no yardsticks by which different aspects of environmental protection can be compared even with each other, let alone with other criteria.
They pushed for a new measure of the state's success using a yardstick called the Genuine Progress Indicator, which looks at environmental and social factors instead of just economic ones.
And even if they have no financial interest in them, they still view economic growth and job creation as the chief gauge of their success.The intentions are goodSEPA did come up with an alternative yardstick, dubbed "green GDP" and intended as a joint measure of both environmental and economic stewardship.
The yardstick for assessment here is the global socio-economic system and whether lignocellulosic biofuels can/will distribute environmental and social impacts more fairly than at present.
Even the chief statistician of the OECD called for better measures of the progress than the traditional yardstick provided by GDP thereby adopting a cause that used to be a hobby-horse reserved for environmental activists.The 700 were divided ino nearly 70 "Global Agenda Councils", and encouraged to brainstorm.
