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| The Indicator Project |
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Principal Investigators
MIT:
J.Clark, S.Murcott, N.Choucri
ETH: D.Spreng, H.Nowotny,
B.Aebischer, A.Gheorghe
UT: K.Yamaji
GIIS:
U.Luterbacher
Indicators help to quantify, simplify, and
monitor events, states and developments. They are used to
communicate findings to the general public, facilitate political
decisions, and/or help in the evaluation of policies. The targeted
use of improved, meaningful indicators can enhance communication
processes and improve decision support for sustainability policies
as well.
Goals/Objectives
- Quality criteria for the selection of energy consumption and
energy efficiency indicators most relevant for the description of
the eco-efficiency of technologies, national economies and
lifestyles
- Identification of policy indicators describing policy measures
and bundles of measures with the aim of identifying
interdependencies between the efficiency/energy indicators and the
policy indicators
- Development of an information basis on the potentials of
efficient climate change policies (sectoral, national and
multinational) that could support the decisions in climate change
policy on the regional, national and multinational
level.
Results/Findings
- Effective indicators are much more situation-specific than
thought previously
- We know how important socio-economic and infrastructural
factors influence total (direct and indirect)energy consumption at
the household level
- Result of a survey of Sustainability Indicator: the concept of
sustainability does not seem to be a tool for actually ‘doing’
science so far. On the research level, only very few draw on
existing definition of sustainability or organize their work in
terms of sustainability. Sustainability seems rather the greater
framework and may be a compass to help align roughly the direction
of their research
activities.
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