MEASURES OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE:
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ABSTRACT
THIS STUDY:
ABSTRACT
Community
indicators projects have emerged throughout the nation in recent decades as a way
to gather and communicate information measuring the performance of a
community in relation to its self-defined values. Due in large part to the
formation of the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership at the Urban
Institute, which itself is made up of twenty-six projects throughout the
country, over two-hundred indicators projects exist today. These projects try
to quantify the typically qualitative phenomenon of community well-being
using more measures than just economic indicators. The projects create
and examine indicators for a combination of economic, environmental, public health
and other social attributes (Gahin
and Paterson 2001).
One such venture is
the Boston Indicators
Project, which was founded in 1997 and is sponsored by The
Boston Foundation, the Boston Redevelopment Authority and the Metropolitan
Area Planning Council. In addition to introducing the concept of indicators
and indicators projects, the study contained in these webpages explains the
structure and process of the Boston Indicators Project. The study concludes
with a more in-depth look at the environmental indicators used by the BIP.
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