{"id":47454,"key":"Indicator_frameworks","title":"Indicator frameworks","latest":{"id":1208360,"timestamp":"2025-11-28T00:00:20Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"Indicator frameworks are measures that allow assessing how well some system of interest is performing, usually with the intent of improving that performance towards a desired goal.\n\nIn terms of sustainability, indicators can help measure important aspects of environmental impact or contribution at the individual, household, organisational, or regional, national, or international level.\n\n=== Levels of Indicators ===\n\nAt the national level, they are potentially an important adjunct alternative to the [[wikipedia:Gross Domestic Product]] (GDP), which is criticised for only measuring the level of a countries' economic activity, good or bad, and thus not being useful to measure progress towards Sustainable well-being.\n\nComputer information systems are often helpful for communicating and allowing interaction with a set of indicators. For example, a [[GIS]] system could be used to support understanding environmental and other indicators at the city or regional-level.\n\n=== See also ===\n\n* Sustainable well-being\n* [[Open data]] (so that citizens can initiate these types of projects independently of governments)\n* [[Extended urban metabolism model]]\n\n=== External links ===\n\n==== National-level indicators ====\n\n* [[wikipedia:Gross Domestic Product#List of newer approaches to the measurement of.28economic.29 progress]]\n* http://web.archive.org/web/20210308193144/http://www.wikiprogress.org/ is a \"global platform for sharing information in order to evaluate social, environmental and economic progress.\", whose mission is to \"connect worldwide organizations and individuals wishing to develop new, smarter measures of progress.\"\n* The [http://www.andi.org.au/ Australian National Development Index] is a \"collaboration of 40 leading community organizations, church groups, businesses and universities who aim to introduce a holistic measure of progress – an index that reflects the views of Australians in an ongoing, participatory process.\"\n\n==== Tools/Methods involving Indicators Frameworks for Urban and Regional Planning ====\n\n* [http://www.planningtoolexchange.org/browse/results/content_type%3Atools%20taxonomy%3A586 Tools tagged 'indicators' at Orton Planning Tools Exchange]\n\n==== Example urban & regional indicator projects ====\n\n* [http://www.planningtoolexchange.org/browse/results/content_type%3Aprojects%20taxonomy%3A586 Projects tagged 'indicators' at Orton Planning Tools Exchange]\n* [http://www.bostonindicators.org Boston Indicators Project], Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It is linked to the [http://web.archive.org/web/20150426223955/http://metrobostondatacommon.org/ Metro Boston Data Common] project, an interesting [[Open data]] initiative.\n* In Melbourne, Australia, the Australian Institute of Urban Studies (AIUS) has led 2 important indicator projects:\n** The [http://web.archive.org/web/20140126040140/http://www.aius.org.au/transport/ Transport, Accessibility and Mobility Indicators for Metropolitan Melbourne project]\n** The [http://web.archive.org/web/20140126040142/http://www.aius.org.au/indicators/ Environmental Indicators for Metropolitan Melbourne project]\n* Also in Melbourne, [http://www.communityindicators.net.au/ Community Indicators Victoria] provides a variety of measures of community wellbeing, including environmental, aggregated at the local government level.\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Information technology]]\n[[Category:Sustainable cities]]\n[[Category:GIS]]\n[[Category:Quality of life]]"}