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Title: | Multilevel and multi-user sustainability assessment of farming systems | Authors: | VAN PASSEL, Steven Meul, Marijke |
Issue Date: | 2012 | Publisher: | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Source: | ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REVIEW, 32(1), p. 170-180 | Abstract: | Sustainability assessment is needed to build sustainable farming systems. A broad range of sustainability concepts, methodologies and applications already exists. They differ in level, focus, orientation, measurement, scale, presentation and intended end-users. In this paper we illustrate that a smart combination of existing methods with different levels of application can make sustainability assessment more profound, and that it can broaden the insights of different end-user groups. An overview of sustainability assessment tools on different levels and for different end-users shows the complementarities and the opportunities of using different methods. In a case-study, a combination of the sustainable value approach (SVA) and MOTIFS is used to perform a sustainability evaluation of farming systems in Flanders. SVA is used to evaluate sustainability at sector level, and is especially useful to support policy makers, while MOTIFS is used to support and guide farmers towards sustainability at farm level. The combined use of the two methods with complementary goals can widen the insights of both farmers and policy makers, without losing the particularities of the different approaches. To stimulate and support further research and applications, we propose guidelines for multilevel and multi-user sustainability assessments. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. | Notes: | [Van Passel, Steven] Hasselt Univ, Fac Business Econ, Ctr Environm Sci, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium. [Meul, Marijke] Univ Coll Ghent, Dept Biosci & Landscape Architecture, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium. [Van Passel, Steven] Univ Antwerp, Dept Biosci Engn, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium. | Keywords: | Sustainability assessment;Multilevel;Sustainable value;MOTIFS;Farming systems;End-user groups | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/13091 | ISSN: | 0195-9255 | e-ISSN: | 1873-6432 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.eiar.2011.08.005 | ISI #: | 000297874000020 | Rights: | 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2013 |
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