In choosing indicators, we propose the following 5 value compositions and 4 areas to build a framework.
Capacity and Resource | Fairness across Time | Fairness across Space | Diversity | Human Will and Networking | |
Nature | resource cycling, water/ soil/ air |
climate change | climate change | biodiversity | environmental education |
Economy | energy, resource productivity, food | finance | food, international cooperation |
energy | international cooperation |
Society | security | tradition/ culture | mobility | gender and minority, tradition and culture | money flow |
Well-being | health | wealth gap | wealth gap | participation in community | life satisfaction, academic performance and education level, health, participation in community |
Standards of choosing indicators
In doing the difficult task of choosing 20 indicators, we have used the following standards as our guidelines. These indicators are not selected to cover all aspects of sustainability; they are what we consider to be headline indicators that help us measure a certain important aspects of sustainability.