Forest Sustainability and the Social Context: Applying the Montreal Process Criteria and Indicators

摘要: Criteria and indicators (C&I) are increasingly being used to gauge sustainability in various contexts. The common approach is arrange a set of under several overarching criteria, usually spanning ecological, social, economic dimensions. In this way, social elements explicitly recognized as crucial the challenge assuring sustainability. theory, after populating with appropriate information, C&I then evaluated relative established benchmarks for each indicator. practice, however, task setting agreed upon often aside owing lack consensus or conceptual difficulties deriving quantified measure within context single indicator indicators. These can be especially pronounced case socioeconomic measures where high degree dynamism confusion between sustainable outcomes desired predominate. these cases, serve an input broader public debate about sustainability, falling short explicit determination which may have been designed but still serving valuable function through its ability organize communicate vital information interdisciplinary context.