Ecologically Sustainable Development

Are We Sustaining Australia? Report Against Headline Sustainabilty Indicators

Environment Australia, 2002
ISBN 0 642 54771 8

Contents

• Executive Summary
• Purpose and Organisation of Report
• Overview of National Sustainability
• Development of Indicators
• What the Indicators Show
• Value 1. Living standards and economic well-being
• Value 2: Education and skills
• Value 3: Healthy living
• Value 4: Air quality
• Value 5: Economic capacity
• Value 6: Industry performance
• Value 7: Economic security
• Value 8: Management of natural resources: water
• Value 9: Management of natural resources: forests
• Value 10: Management of natural resources: fish
• Value 11: Management of natural resources: energy
• Value 12: Management of natural resources: agriculture
• Value 13: Gender and economic equity
• Value 14: Educational and economic equity
• Value 15: Health and socio-economic equity
• Value 16: Locational equity
• Value 17: Biodiversity and ecological integrity
• Value 18: Climate change
• Value 19: Coastal and marine health
• Value 20: Freshwater health
• Value 21: Land health