Natural Indicators

Sustainability Indicators for Natural Resource Management & Policy

Natural disasters and indicators of social cohesion

Do adversarial environmental conditions create social cohesion? We provide new answers to this question by exploiting spatial and temporal variation in exposure to earthquakes across Chile. Using a variety of methods and controlling for a number of socio-economic variables, we find that exposure to earthquakes has a positive effect on several indicators of social cohesion. Social cohesion incre...

Instrumental Valuation Indicators for Natural Resources and Ecosystems

Characterisation of the natural environment: quantitative indicators across Europe

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization recognises the importance of natural environments for human health. Evidence for natural environment-health associations comes largely from single countries or regions, with varied approaches to measuring natural environment exposure. We present a standardised approach to measuring neighbourhood natural environment exposure in cities in different regions...

Analysis of economic development constraints based on natural indicators Case: Rural areas of Hormozgan province

Introduction One of the major and fundamental issues in the field of spatial planning is balanced development, which can be raised in the form of balanced development of sectors or regions. In line with the social justice policy, as the central aim of the countrychr('39')s development plans, it is necessary to study the situation of different regions in terms of distribution and the extent of ...