{"id":2826,"date":"2012-12-04T06:58:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T06:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2012-12-04T06:58:46","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T06:58:46","slug":"measuring-well-being-and-sustainable-development-if-you-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/12\/04\/measuring-well-being-and-sustainable-development-if-you-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring well-being and sustainable development \u2013 if you can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I submitted written evidence to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee's enquiry into measuring well-being and sustainable development, that focused on the thorny issue of sustainable development indicators. \u00a0The committee's\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201213\/cmselect\/cmenvaud\/667\/667.pdf\">report<\/a> has just been issued.<\/p>\n<p>What a damp squib. \u00a0Whilst it was nice to see my evidence in print (actually, it was only in Volume 2, as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201213\/cmselect\/cmenvaud\/667\/667vw.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), there's little noteworthy in the report as a whole. \u00a0In fact, I found the other evidence more useful than the committee's deliberations. \u00a0And as for Defra, I rather think they've given up on the indicator business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I submitted written evidence to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee's enquiry into measuring well-being and sustainable development, that focused on the thorny issue of sustainable development indicators. \u00a0The committee's\u00a0report has just been issued. What a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}