CSIN Learning Event #40 (WMV - 78 MB) took place on April 3, with presentations from Dr. Margot Parkes (Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health), Mike Puddister (Credit Valley Conservation), Tatiana Koveshnikova (Credit Valley Conservation), Dr. Lorna Medd (Cowichan Watershed Board) and Steve Litke (Fraser Basin Council). The presenters offered perspectives on the challenges of measuring indicators for human health and well-being in watershed management programs.
CSIN Learning Event webinar #39 (WMV - 43 MB) took place on March 7 with presenter Alex de Sherbinin explaining target setting in environmental indicators. Watch the webinar recording now!
CSIN Learning Event webinar #38 (WMV - 48 MB) took place on Feb 21 with presenter Lyle Wray discussing the Community Results Toolkit - From Community Indicators to Results. Watch the webinar recording now!
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Tools and Resources
This is a list of web-based resources relevant to indicator and reporting practitioners. You may also wish to refer to CSIN Learning Events for additional reading, recorded events and presentations on specific indicator and reporting related topics. If you know of any tools and resources missing from this list or wish to have something added, please email relevant details to csin@iisd.ca and we will do our best to get it listed.
Resources Canada:
- Canadian Council on Social Development
- Human Resources and Skills Development Canada Indicators of Well-Being in Canada
- Sustainable Forest Management
Resources International:
- Compendium: A Global Directory to Indicator Initiatives
- European Commission Sustainable Development Indicators
- European Environment Agency Indicators about Europe's Environment
- Environmental Sustainability Index
- OECD Sustainable Development
- Measure of America
- State of the USA
- Sustainable Measures
- Transboundary Site – Puget Sound Georgia Basin Ecosystem
- UK National Indicators of Sustainable Development
- U.K. Environment Agency Reports on Environment
- US EPA Environmental Indicators Gateway
- UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development Indicators of Sustainable Development
- UN System-Wide Earthwatch Indicators
- UNEP SoE Gateway
- UNDP Human Development Reports
- Wikipedia, Community Indicators
- World Bank's World Development Report
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Indicators
- World Resources Institute, Earth Trends
- World Wildlife Fund, Living Planet Report
Canadian Indicator and Reporting Initiatives
- British Columbia State of Environment Reporting
- BC Progress Board
- Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- Environment Canada, Ecosystem Information
- Fraser Basin, British Columbia, Canada
- Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Toronto Vital Signs
- Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
- Vital Signs Canada
- Whistler 2020
Bi-National Indicator and Reporting Initiatives
International Indicator and Reporting Initiatives
- Bournemouth Council UK, Levels of Social Deprivation
- Community Indicators Initiative of Spokane
- Community Indicators Victoria, Australia
- DataHaven, New Haven Community Indicators Website
- Jacksonville Community Council, Inc.
- Metropolitan Chicago
- Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Sonoma County, California, USA
- Truckee Meadows Tomorrow Quality of Life Indicators, Adopt-An-Indicator
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Twin Cities Compass- Minneapolis and St. Paul, USA
Corporate Social Responsibility
- Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
- Canadian Chemical Producers Association, Reducing Emissions report
- GRI Reporting Framework
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Data Sources
- Agriculture and Agri Food Canada Community Information Database
- BC Stats
- Community Mapping Network
- Canadian Index of Well-Being (CIW)
- Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI)
- Statistics Canada
Documents:
- Canadian Approaches to Assessing Water Security: An inventory of indicators University of British Columbia Program on Water Governance, 2009
- Capacity Building for Integrated Environmental Assessment and Monitoring, Training Manual, 2nd Edition (PDF) (2,300 kb) IISD, UNEP, Ecologistics Inc., 2000
- Environmental Performance Indicators: A second edition note World Bank, 1999
- Environmental Performance Index Yale Centre for Environmental Policy and Law, 2006
- Environmental Sustainability Index Yale Centre for Environmental Policy and Law, 2005
- Handbook on Composite Indicators Methodology and User Guide OECD, August 2005
- Impact of Environmental Information on Decision Making Processes and the Environment (PDF) (1,100 kb) UNEP/GRID-Arendal paper, 2000
- Indicators of Environment and Sustainable Development, Theories and Practical Experience Paper No. 89 (PDF) (411 kb) World Bank, 2002
- Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development–A report to the Balaton Group (PDF) (418 kb) Donella Meadows, 1998
- Linking Ecological Monitoring to Decision-Making at Community and Landscape Scales (PDF) (934 kb) Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (EMAN), 2005
- Reporting Performance Information: Suggested criteria for effective communication Government Accounting Standards Board, USA, 2003
- SOE Cookbook–How to do State of the Environment reporting on the Internet UNEP/GRID-Arendal paper, 1998
- The Bellagio Principles IISD–Assessing Sustainable Development: Principles in Practice, 1997