title: Environmental planning vs. systems analysis: four prescriptive principles vs. four descriptive indicators.
abstract: Four principles for a systems approach to sustainability, which have been suggested as prescriptive, normative and desirable, are analysed. Limitations in the principles are observed. The four principles are developed into descriptive indicators, metrics or tools that can be used in sustainability systems analysis to study important properties of all complex systems.
authors.affiliation: Research Centre Synergos, School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tampere, Yliopistonkatu 54, FIN-33100 Tampere, Finland. jouni.korhonen@uta.fi
authors.forename: Jouni
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Korhonen
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000633:toxicity; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011050:Policy Making; D011640:Public Policy; D013597:Systems Analysis
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants