Dashboard of Sustainability

Dashboard of Sustainability screen shot

The Dashboard of Sustainability is a free, non-commercial software package configured to convey the complex relationships among economic, social, and environmental issues.^[1] The software is designed to help developing countries achieve the Millennium Development Goals and work towards sustainable development. ^[2] This software package has had a variety of representations. In 2002, Dashboard of Sustainability researchers Jochen Jesinghaus and Peter Hardi presented the Dashboard of Sustainability at the Jonannesburg Summit.^[3] In 2004, the Retailer's Bakery Association in Laurel, Maryland, United States considered the Dashboard of Sustainability when evaluating its twenty five affiliate groups for leadership, administrative structure, membership involvement, and member services.^[4] In January 2006, the Millennium Project utilized the Dashboard of Sustainability to conclude in their State of the Future report that global prospects for improving the overall health, wealth, and sustainability of humanity are improving, but slowly.^[5] In February 2006, it was proposed that the Dashboard of Sustainability be utilized to combine and represent two or more of the following five frameworks presently used for developing sustainability indicators: domain-based, goal-based, issue-based, sectoral, and causal frameworks.^[6] The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that 191 United Nations member states have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. ... Sustainable Development is a collection of methods to create economic development which protects the environment, relieves poverty, and does not destroy natural capital in the short term at the expense of long term development. ... The World Summit on Sustainable Development, or Earth Summit took place in Johannesburg, South Africa from August 26 to September 4, 2002 to discuss sustainable development issues. ... Motto: Progressio Per Populum (Progress Through People) Location of Laurel in Maryland Coordinates: Country United States State Maryland County Prince Georges County Incorporated 1870 Mayor Craig A. Moe City Council Ward 1: Janis L. Robison Ward1: Gayle Snyder Ward2: Frederick Smalls (Pr. ... The Millennium Project provides an international capacity for early warning and analysis of global long-range issues, opportunities, and strategies. ... The annual State of the Future (print edition) assesses 15 Global Challenges, updates the State of the Future Index, gives brief summaries of other reseach during the year, and contains a CD an annotated scenario bibiograph of over 550 secenario sets, and research results and methods of all major research...

References

1. ^ Consultative Group on Sustainable Development Indicators. (2006) Dashboard of Sustainability. Obtained Nov. 11, 2006.
2. ^ Consultative Group on Sustainable Development Indicators. (2006) Dashboard of Sustainability. Obtained Nov. 11, 2006.
3. ^ Olalla-Tárraga, Miguel Ángel (Feb. 1, 2006). International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. A conceptual framework to assess sustainability in urban ecological systems. Volume 13; Issue 1, Pg. 1. Obtained Nov. 11, 2006.
4. ^ Hoffman, Peggy. (Feb. 1, 2004) Bright lights, vibrant components: use dashboard indicators to check the health of your chapters.(Organizational Performance). Volume 56; Issue 2, Pg. 51. Obtained Nov. 11, 2006.
5. ^ Glenn, Jerome C.; Gordon, Theodore J. (Jan. 1, 2006) The Futurist. Update on the State of the Future: environmental sustainability, global partnerships against terror, technology, and drug availability figure in humanity's future.. Volume 40; Issue 1, Pg. 20. Obtained Nov. 11, 2006.
6. ^ Olalla-Tárraga, Miguel Ángel (Feb. 1, 2006). International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology. A conceptual framework to assess sustainability in urban ecological systems. Volume 13; Issue 1, Pg. 1. Obtained Nov. 11, 2006.

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