Discussion Roundtable

Measurement and assessment of indicators


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Lead Papers
Comments and Recommendations from Participants (by name and address)
Summary of Comments from Participants
Summary of Recommendations from Participants
Assessment of Results of Discussion Roundtable and Conclusion
Closing Remark by Leader

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Lead Papers
Mark Anielski, MALIK AMIN ASLAM, Dr. Peter Bartelmus,Dr. Keith G. Brown, Ronald Colman, Karine Danielyan, David Del Porto, Dr. ir. J.Dewulf and J. Mulder and H.J. van der Kooi and J. de Swaan Arons, Dott. Giuseppe Di Vita, Michele Doncaster, Alexey Drouziaka, Germain Dufour, Louise Dunne and Frank Convery, David S. Evans, C. Coulthard, I. Henderson, P. Jones, Oleg Garms, Dr. Anastassios Gentzoglanis, Dr. Hans W. Gottinger, Nikolai Grishin and Olga Tokmakova, Dr. Tee L. Guidotti, Xiaohui Hao, Mikylas Huba, Vladimir Ira, Dr. A.Jagadeesh, Kun H. JOHN and Yeo C. Youn and Jae W. Park , S. Augustinand J. Katima and E. Klawe and B. Lyimo, Natalia Knijnikova, Dr. Vladimir Kremsa, Elena Krougikova, Ms. Maria V. Kryukova, Van Lantz, Tonu Lausmaa, Ming Lei, Ngo Louga Madeleine, Igor N. Malakhov, Dr. Sue L.T. McGregor, Marin R. Mehandjiev (Professor) and Krassimira R. Mehandjieva, Mr. Aubrey Meyer, Jose H. Moya, James Mwami,Dr. Yew-Kwang Ng, Anatoly Nikitin and Sofia Nikitina, Vincent Otto, Roland Prelaz-Droux, Akim Rahman, Dr. C. Ramachandraiah, Dr. B. Sudhakara Reddy, S. S. Sundarvel, Dirgha N. Tiwari, S.G. Patil* and L.B. Hugar* and M.S. Veerapur* and, J. Yerriswamy* and T. Cross† and A.C. vanLoon† and G.W. vanLoon†, DSc. Professor William M. Zadorsky, Dr. Katalin K. Zaim, Dr. ZhongXiang Zhang

Mark Anielski

Executive Director
Centre for Performance Measurement & Management (CPMM)
Faculty of Business
University of Alberta
Edmonton
Alberta
Paper title: Towards an Inclusive Yardstick of Societal Well-being Paper title: How Modified National Accounts, using the Genuine Progress Indicator or the ISEW, might be used to Manage the Sustainable Well-being of Societies
anielski@ualberta.ca
MALIK AMIN ASLAM

Executive Director, ENVORK: A Research & Development Organization
Researcher in Climate Change Sector in Pakistan
Member of the UN (UNIDO, UNEP, UNDP & UNCTAD) International Working Group on the CDM
Researcher on CDM capacity building (UNEP ~ Geneva)
Reasearcher on Compatibility of Kyoto Mechanisms (PEW Centre on Climate Change ~ USA)
Researcher of Voluntary opt-in issues for Developing Countries(UNCTAD ~ Geneva)
Islamabad
Pakistan
Paper title: CDM: How to ensure Sustainable Development in Developing Countries
amin@isb.comsats.net.pk
Dr. Peter Bartelmus

Director
Division for Material Flows and Structural Change
Department of Economics and Social Information and Policy Analysis
Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
Germany
Paper title: Towards a Framework for Indicators of Sustainable Development
Paper title: Greening the National Accounts: Approach and Policy Use
peter.bartelmus@wupperinst.org
http://www.wupperinst.org
Dr. Keith G. Brown

Dean and Managing Director
Department of Economic and Technological Innovation
University College of Cape Breton
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Canada
and
Assistant Professor of Marketing in the School of Business
Ph.D in Marketing from the University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom
University College of Cape Breton
P.O. Box 5300, Sydney
Nova Scotia
Paper title:
A Journey From Coal and Steel to Economic Innovation - Cape Breton Style
kbrown@uccb.ns.ca
Ronald Colman

Genuine Progress Index Atlantic
Nova Scotia
Paper title: Measuring Genuine Progress
gcolman@istar.ca
Karine Danielyan

National Expert of UNDP and UNEP
Independent expert of Parliament of RA
TACIS and Armenian Parliament
President of Association "For Sustainable Human Development"
Associate Professor of Department of Geography
Yerevan State University
Yerevan
Armenia
Paper title: The Experience of Transformation of the Human Development Index (HDI) into the Sustainable Human Development Index (SHDI) (including the Integral Environmental Indicator)
ashd@freenet.am
argev@lx2.yerphi.am
David Del Porto

Ecos/Sustainable Strategies
Ecological Engineering, Planning and Design
Paper title: Coefficient of Sustainability (CDS)
sustainable@aics.net
http://www.ecological-engineering.com
http://www.ecological-engineering.com/cofs.html
Dr. ir. J.Dewulf, J. Mulder, H.J. van der Kooi and J. de Swaan Arons

Dr. ir. J.Dewulf, J. Mulder, H.J. van der Kooi and J. de Swaan Arons
Prof. Dr. ir. Herman Van Langenhove
Department of Organic Chemistry
Gent
Belgium
herman.vanlangenhove@rug.ac.be
Dr. ir. Jo. Dewulf
Department of Organic Chemistry
Gent
Delft University J.deSwaanArons@STM.TUDelft.nl
Paper title: The Search for a Parameter Quantifying Technological Sustainability: Development of a Sustainable Coefficient
Dott. Giuseppe Di Vita

University of Catania
Faculty of Law
Italy
Paper title: Secondary Materials, Exhaustible Resources and Growth Rates
gdivita@lex.unict.it
Michele Doncaster

Environmenal Department
York University

Port Carling
Ontario
Paper title: Environmental Planning and Education for Sustainability
Paper title: A Photo Display about Interpreting Sustainability
micheledoncaster@hotmail.com
Alexey Drouziaka

Biologist
Novosibirsk State University
Moscow Scientific School Society
Kamchatka
Russia
Paper title: Study of Bird Population in Kamchatka and Siberia and their Interconnections with the Environment and Human Beings for 10 years
Paper: Biogeocenosis of the Kronotskoye Lake, Kamchatka
yupik@elrus.kamchatka.su
druz@ecoclub.nsu.ru
Germain Dufour

Physicist
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Paper title: A Scale of Values for Assessment of the Four Levels of Concerns: Environment, Economic Development, Availability of Resources, as part of GESDI and GSDP
Paper title: Measurement of the local/global indicators GESDI and GSDP
Paper title: A unique, more relevant global dialogue on the Management of Global Changes
Paper title: The Global Community Assessment Centre is part of a unique organization created to better link scientific understanding to effective policy solutions to global changes
gdufour@globalcommunitywebnet.com
Louise Dunne and Frank Convery

Research Fellow
Environmental Institute
National University of Ireland Dublin
Ireland
Paper title: Key Indicators of Urban Environmental Performance in Ireland
Email: louise.dunne@ucd.ie
http://www.ucd.ie/~envinst/envstud/
David S. Evans, C. Coulthard, I. Henderson, P. Jones

David S. Evans
CSC Project Management Services
Sr. Risk Analyst
Calgary
Alberta
Paper title: Risk Analysis to Measure Sustainable Development Elements for Large Construction Projects
CSCDaveE@cs.com
Authors:
D. Evans, Ph.D., P. Geol.,
403-233-7994
Oleg Garms

Isnpector of the State Committee on Enviroment Preservation of Altai Region

Our purpose is to create preserved territories in Altai region. There are 33 reserves and more then 100 nature conservations. In Desember 1999 the «Tigirecksky» reserve was created in the West Altai. The future purpose is to organize monitoring of conserved territories and to create a system of the territories and then develop it into ecological carcass.Creating of ecologically united complexes of Nature communities, which do not suffering from industrial activity because it’s large area, is a condition of sustainable development of our mountain-steppe region.

ekolog@altgate.altai.ru
Dr. Anastassios Gentzoglanis

Professor
CEREF (Centre for the Study of Regulatory Economics & Finance)
Department of Economics
University of Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke Quebec
Paper title: GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS CAPS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
agentz@courrier.usherb.ca
Dr. Hans W. Gottinger

Professor of Economics
University of Maastricht (RL)
International Institute for Environmental Economics and Management
Germany
Paper title:
Sustainability: Marco vs Micro
hg528@bingo.baynet.de
hg528@bingo-ev.de
gottih@rpi.edu
hwgott@aol.com
Nikolai Grishin and Olga Tokmakova

Nikolai Grishin
Coordinator of International and Russian Public Networks for Environmental Impact Assessment (IPNEIA / RUPNEIA)
Director of Agency "ECOTERRA"
Moscow
Russia
Paper title: Public Participation in Environmental Decision Making, as Tool for Solving Environmental Problems
ngrishin@glasnet.ru
Dr. Tee L. Guidotti

Dr. Tee L. Guidotti, MD, MPH
Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Department of Public Health Sciences
University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine
13-103 Clinical Sciences Building Paper title: ASSESSING THE HEALTH OF URBAN ECOSYSTEMS
Paper title: Sustainable Development can only be sustained if it is socially responsive
eohtlg@mail.gwumc.edu
Xiaohui Hao

Researcher in Resources, Environment and Sustainable Development
Chief of Resource and Environment Division
Associate Professor
Institute of Spatial Planning and Regional Economy
The State Development Planning Commission
China
Paper title: Policies and Measures for mitigating GHGs in Chinese Power Sector
haoxh@mx.cei.gov.cn
Mikylas Huba

Institute of Geography
Society for Sustainable Living in the Slovak Republic
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovakia
Paper title: Environmental Indicators for Sustainable Cities in Slovakia
geoghuba@savba.savba.sk
geoghuba@savba.sk
Vladimir Ira

Institute of Geography
Slovak Academy of Sciences
Slovakia
Paper title: Subjective (Behavioural) Indicators of Sustainable Development for Decision-Making Process
ira@savba.sk
Dr A.Jagadeesh (Ph.D.)

Convener
Nayudamma Centre for
Development Alternatives Andhra Pradesh
INDIA
Paper title: SOME PLANTS TO PROMOTE AFFORESTATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Paper title: Wind Energy Development in Tmil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, India
Paper title: Simple Water Heater for Developing Countries
Other Address:
Dr A.Jagadeesh
Renewable Energy Specialist
Centre for Energy and Sustainable Resources
Gummidipoondi Taluk
Tamil Nadu, India
a_jagadeesh@yahoo.com
vayoo@hotmail.com
a_jagadeesh@usa.net
a_jagadeesh@coolmail.com
Kun H. JOHN, Yeo C. Youn, and Jae W. Park

Director
Forestry Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture
Environmental Planning Institute
Seoul National University
Seoul
Korea
Kunjohn@aol.com
Paper title:
RESOLVING CONFLICTING ECOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS IN THE KOREAN DMZ: A VALUATION BASED APPROACH
S. Augustin, J. Katima, E. Klawe & B. Lyimo

Prof. Jamidu Katima
Tanzania Greenhouse Gases Action Trust
P.O. Box1287 Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
Paper title: THE CARBON OFFSET VERIFICATION MODEL (COV)
taghgat@newafrica.or.tz
jkatima@cpe.udsm.ac.tz
Natalia Knijnikova

Ecologist
Nhairman of the Expert Council
Ñhairman of the NGO «The Ecoligical Council»
Non-staff Expert of the Chernobyl and Environmental Committee of the Bryansk Regional Duma (Parliament)
Russia
Paper title: WILL TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOP
root@greenfeel.bitmcnit.bryansk.su
Dr. Vladimir Kremsa

Professor of Landscape Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Paper title: Managing and Measuring Sustainable Development on the Landscape Level
Paper title: Sustainable Rural Development
vkremsa@vmredipn.ipn.mx
Elena Krougikova

Kola Coordinative Environmental Centre
Coordinator of GAIA Apatity
Paper title: The Role of Non-governmental Organizations in Environmental Education (from the experience of GAIA in the Kola peninsula)
Paper title: Social Indicators of Environmental Situation
krugl@aprec.ru
Ms. Maria V. Kryukova

Ms. Maria V. Kryukova (Ph.D.)
Senior Researcher
The Plant Ecology Laboratory
Institute for Aquatic and Ecological Problems of Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Khabarovsk
Russia
Paper title: Food and Medicinal Plants of the Dzhango Community Native Forest Problems and Prospects of Use
dmitry@ivep.khabarovsk.su
dmitry@ivep.khv.ru
flora@ivep.khv.ru
Van Lantz

Department of Economics
Environmental Economics
Simon Fraser University
Paper title:
An Explanation for the Observed SO2 - GNP Relationship in the U.S. Economy (1900-1990): Combining Environmental Kuznets Curve Theory with Evidence
vlantz@sfu.ca
http://sfu.ca/~vlantz
Tonu Lausmaa

Renewable Energy
Re-En Centre TAASEN
Estonia
Paper title: About a Sustainable Economy Definition
tlausmaa@teleport.ee
Ming Lei

Associate Professor of Peking University(P.R.China)
Associate Professor of Donated Chair of Kyoto University(Japan)
Guanghua School of Management
Peking University
P.R.China
and
Division of Societal System Planning for Energy
Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Japan
Paper title: Integrated System of Economy-Environment Accounting of China (CSEEA)----System Design and Trial Estimation (1992)
leiming@gsm.pku.edu.cn
mlei@uji.energy.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Ngo Louga Madeleine

Coordinator
and
Mouandjo Nseke David Fritz Narcisse
Project Administrator
Health and Environment Program
Cameroon
Paper title: DE LA CONCEPTUALISATION DE LA NOTION DE DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE A SON INSTRUMENTALISATION AUX REALITES LOCALES: UN DEBAT OU UN COMBAT EN AFRIQUE A L'AUBE DU TROISIEME MILLENAIRE mlouga@iccnet.cm
Igor N. Malakhov

Ukraine
Paper title: The Quality of Life Index for Measuring of Sustainable Development
malakhov@ecok.freenet.kiev.ua
Dr. Sue L.T. McGregor

Professor
Coordinator, Peace and Conflict Studies
Mount Saint Vincent University
Paper title: The Role of Families in Sustainable Development (Proposal for an Open Informal Discussion Roundtable)
sue.mcgregor@msvu.ca
SMCGREGO.Employee.msvu@msvu1.msvu.ca
SMCGREGO@msvu1.msvu.ca
http://www.msvu.ca
Marin R. Mehandjiev (Professor) and Krassimira R. Mehandjieva

Association of Bulgarian Environmentalists and Ecologists
Bulgaria
Paper title: Quantitative Indicators of the Sustainable Development
abecop@museum.web.bg
Mr. Aubrey Meyer

Global Commons Institute (GCI)
UK
Paper title: CONVENTIONAL OIL DEPELTION & GLOBAL CLIMATE POLICY
aubrey@gci.org.uk
website http://www.gci.org.uk
GLOBE's documentation on Climate Change and "Contraction and Convergence" presented to the G-8 leaders in Birmingham [UK 1998] is available [as a downloadable pdf file] from: - http://www.gci.org.uk/papers.html
GLOBE International is a network of environmentally concerned parliamentarians.
Their website is at: - http://www.globeint.org/
Jose H. Moya

Professor
Central University of Venezuala
Caracas
Venezuela
Coordinator of Institutional Relationships of FORJA of Venezuala
Latin American Association of Environmental Educators
World Network about Climatic Changes
World Council for the Earth
World Commission of Education and Communication of the Union for the Conservation of Nature
ECO-SOC of the United Nations
Paper title:
Educacion y Organizacion Ciudadana: Retos Para el Desarrollo Ambientalmente Sustentado vs Globalizacion
Paper title:
Education and Community Organization: Challenges for Sustainable Environmental Development
James Mwami

Water Engineer
GTZ Integrated Pastoral Development Project

Mbarara
Uganda
Paper title: Public Participation in Watershed Development by Settlers
kalisa@swiftuganda.com

Dr. Yew-Kwang Ng

Professor
Department of Economics
Monash University
Paper title: Why do Economists Overestimate the Costs of Public Spending on Research and Environmental Protection
Paper title: Overestimation of costs of Public Spending on Research and Environmental Protection
kwang.ng@buseco.monash.edu.au
Anatoly Nikitin and Sofia Nikitina

Manager
Elizovsky Region
Kamchatka
Russia
Paper title: Ethnoculture as the Basis of Harmonik Interactions Between Human Beings and Environment
yupik@elrus.kamchatka.su
druz@ecoclub.nsu.ru
Vincent Otto

Maastricht University Secretariat of Micro-Economics
Maastricht University
Centre for Environment and Renewable Energy Studies
The Netherlands
and
The Netherlands
Paper title: Establishing Technology Transfers: Potential Costs & Benefits (an insight into how companies and public bodies prioritize the issue)
v_otto@hotmail.com
sotto@worldonline.nl
Roland Prelaz-Droux

Maitre d'enseignement et de recherche
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Switzerland
Paper title: Measurement and management of sustainable development in Switzerland, China, Tunisia, Vietnam, and Senegal.
Roland.Prelaz-Droux@epfl.ch
Akim Rahman

Environmental Science Graduate Program
The Ohio State University
Paper title:
CO2 EMISSION FROM ELECTRIC UTILITY AND KYOTO PROTOCOL: STUDY OF POLICY ANALYSIS
rahman.19@osu.edu
akim.rahman@puc.state.oh.us
Brain-storming ideas by same author:
EFFLUENT GASES FROM COAL COMBUSTION - EFFECT ON ENVIRONMENT
Dr. C. Ramachandraiah

President
Academy of Human Environment and Development (AHEAD)
India
Video Film title: The Migrating Sands
Paper title: Preventing Desertification in a Drought-affected area
rchandra@hd2.vsnl.net.in
Dr. B. Sudhakara Reddy

Associate Professor and Dean
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Film City Road
Goregaon (East)
India
Paper title:
Institutions for Environmental Governance: Issues of Community Participation and Sustainable Development
sreddy@igidr.ac.in
S.S.Sundarvel

Senior Lecturer, School of Ecology
Pondicherry University
INDIA
Paper title: Sustainability Indicators
sunvel@yahoo.com
Dirgha N. Tiwari

Dirgha N. Tiwari (Dr. Eng.)
Environmental Economist
Kathmandu, Nepal
Paper title:
Environmental Accounting, Sectoral and Economywide Sustainability: Indicators and Implications of Environmental-economic Policies in Nepal
dntiwari@hotmail.com
S.G. Patil*, L.B. Hugar*, M.S. Veerapur*, J. Yerriswamy*, T. Cross†, A.C. vanLoon†, and G.W. vanLoon†

*University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka, India and †Queen’s University, Kingston
Gary W. vanLoon
Department of Chemistry
Queen's University
Kingston, ON
Paper title: Measures of agricultural sustainability – a study in South India
vanloon@chem.queensu.ca
DSc. Professor William M. Zadorsky

Pridneprovie Cleaner Production Center
Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology
Dnepropetrovsk
Paper title: Cleaner Production as a base of Sustainable Product Development
Ukraine.ecofond@ecofond.dp.ua
zadorsky@mail.comwww.zadorsky.8m.com
Dr. Katalin K. Zaim

Asst. Professor
Department of Computer Technology & Office Management
Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey
Paper title:
Pollution Control Priorities Assessment with IPPS: the Case of Turkey
kumar@central.murdoch.edu.au
kzaim@bilkent.edu.tr
http://www.ctp.bilkent.edu.tr/~kzaim
Dr. ZhongXiang Zhang

Department of Economics and Public Finance
University of Groningen
The Netherlands
Paper title: Estimating the Size of the Potential Market for the Kyoto Flexibility Mechanisms
Z.X.Zhang@Rechten.RUG.NL
Z.X.Zhang@ECO.RUG.NL
http://www.eco.rug.nl/medewerk/zhang/

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