Hartmut Bossel
APPROACH AND RESULTS
A full set of regional indicators for sustainable development was developed using a method based on basic orientors (Bossel 1996b, Bossel 1997). In this approach, indicators are chosen for their ability to provide reliable answers to a set of questions concerning basic orientational satisfaction (a) with respect to the interests of the component system, and (b) with respect to the interests of the total system (Table 1 ).
The complete listing is included below in Table 2. In this list, indicators have been ordered according to more traditional categories:
N normative and ethics indicators
P psychological indicators
Q qualification indicators
O organizational indicators
L living condition indicators
W welfare and social condition indicators
M material resources indicators
F financial and economic indicators
D dependence indicators
B environmental burden indicators.
Indicators are numbered consecutively in each of these categories. It is obvious from these categories that this list of indicators of sustainable development reaches beyond the indicator sets proposed elsewhere (which focus on environment, resources, and economic indicators) by including indicators providing information about the sustainable development potential of all sectors of the total system.
REFERENCES
Bossel, H. (1996) 20/20 Vision -Explorations of Sustainable Futures. Universität GH Kassel: Gesamthochschulbibliothek.
Bossel, H. (1997) Deriving Indicators of Sustainable Development. Environmental Modeling and Assessment (in print).