One respondent (IP1) argued that the use of the current indicators and benchmarking principles leads to manipulation of information.
The authors selected the 100 most promising technological solutions from all the suggestions made by the active members of the forum, and evaluated and ranked them using the indicators and calculation principle described in the previous section.
For this purpose, stakeholders' expectations and concerns, respectively expressed in terms of objectives and risks, are identified and transformed into global value and risk indicators using principles, tools and techniques of performance measurement, risk assessment and decision-making disciplines.
This concept is taken as a normative basis to provide a first orientation regarding energy technologies and to derive guiding principles which can be used to develop assessment criteria and indicators ("Sustainability principles for energy technology assessment" section).
A panel of experts (HRP team members) first identified the high-level issues to be addressed in the HRP and the criteria and principles for selection of indicators.
Second, concepts to specify the main categories for developing measurable indicators are compiled, considering different intervention approaches and principles from the literature.
The SAFE framework is hierarchical as it is composed of principles, criteria, indicators and reference values in a structured way.
Table 1 presents a variety of possible concepts and related indicators for these generic categories of the CPO model, considering different intervention approaches and principles.
The framework consists of 3 principles, 6 criteria, 12 indicators and 18 verifiers and was applied for assessment of forest protection committees operating in south-west West Bengal, India.
The framework developed on the basis of 6 principles, 12 criteria, 36 indicators and 47 verifiers had been applied for assessment of Eco-Development Committees of the Sunderbans, India.
