Indicators reflect measures of trends in the state of the environment and monitor the progress made in realising environmental policy targets. As such, environmental indicators have become indispensable to policy-makers. Various types of indicators are used to evaluate the state of the environment; five types are widely mentioned in research and report: indicators for driving forces, pressure and state are mentioned most often; followed by response indicators; and impact indicators are merely used for a few specific issues, such as changes in 15 human health due to an increase in concentration of pollutants, damage to forests due to emissions and disturbance of people due to noise.
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NGO Sustainability Indicators: Evaluation of Greening Commitments Through Their Website Content
Teresa Pozo-Llorente (University of Granada, Spain), Cristóbal E. Jorge-Bañón (University of Granada, Spain), and
José Gutiérrez-Pérez (University of Granada, Spain)
Copyright: © 2021
|Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6799-9.ch013
Abstract
This chapter revolves around the commitment to sustainability of non-governmental organisations (NGOs). It deals with the construction of a system of indicators of the greening of these organizations, taking as a reference the possible evidence of their commitment to sustainability. These indicators have constituted the basis for the design and validation of an observational record (an estimation scale) to assess said commitment. This observational scale, made up of 51 indicators divided into 10 large dimensions, enables the estimation of the degree of presence of these aspects in the work carried out by NGOs, using the information available on the corporate web portals of these organizations as a source of analysis. From an exploratory perspective, and after applying the designed instrument, this work aims to characterize the greening tasks developed by eight NGOs (in both Spain and internationally): Cruz Roja (Red Cross), Manos Unidas, Agua de Coco, APDHA Calor y Café, Médicos Sin Fronteras (Doctors Without Borders), Amnesty International, and Setem-Andalucía.