Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Indicator
Facet of
Other data
Strengths
Drawbacks
sustainability
required
Available
Social,
Time allocation,
The availability of alternative
Hard to infer much from this information in
livelihoods
financial
barriers, profitability
livelihoods and income/
isolation.
consumption from them is useful
both for policy intervention
and to calculate harvester
opportunity costs.
Levels of conflict
Social
Institutional structures,
Important information
Not directly related to biological sustainability.
in community
social context
for assessing and intervening
May be hard to measure objectively.
in social sustainability.
Institutional
Social
Social context
Necessary for understanding
No clear metric, requires institutions to be tested,
robustness
before intervening.
which can be difficult to engineer.
Perceived well-
Social
Baseline (control
Can be a useful indicator of
Complex web of causation, may not be related
being of users
population or
social success in conservation
to harvesting or conservation.
pre-intervention)
interventions.
Hunter
Social
—
Can help in predicting future
May not be clearly related to current harvesting
aspirations
harvesting pressures and
behaviour.
tailoring interventions to needs.
Attitudes to
Social
—
Can be used to direct appro-
The link between attitudes and behaviour is not
nature and
priate conservation interventions
straightforward; behaviour is what leads to
conservation
and can be a measure of success.
changes in sustainability.
