Open AccessOVERVIEW OF INDICATOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIELDS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Author(s) -
Žarko Vranjanac
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
facta universitatis. series: working and living environmental protection/facta universitatis. series: working and living environmental protection
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0534
pISSN - 0354-804X
DOI - 10.22190/fuwlep1903193v
Subject(s) - sustainable development , variety (cybernetics) , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental planning , environmental resource management , computer science , management science , business , environmental science , engineering , political science , artificial intelligence , law
This paper discusses the historical development, terminological definition, and the theoretical definition of indicators used in the fields of sustainable development and environmental protection. Since numerous indicators are used in a variety of scientific fields and since new indicators are constantly being developed, special focus is given to the types of indicators. Individual, derived, composite, or ‘super’ indicators are increasingly used to show a state and changes of a given state of a specific phenomenon or concept. Thus formed indicators constitute an important segment in the monitoring of the state of the environment and in the monitoring of sustainable development, on the basis of which decisions can be made. Such indicators are extensively used in the fields of sustainable development and environmental protection, and the aim of this review was to help better understand their essence.