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This paper focuses on the development of an integrated environmental index for use in land use zoning. Such a composite indicator, which integrates various aspects of environmental conditions into one index, may be a useful tool for measuring sustainability (Overman, Hanson, Brown and Merideth, 1988). It is clear, however, that great care needs to be taken in the valuation and scaling of the components in such indicators in order to avoid the familiar problem of combining apples and oranges. The use of composites may also be difficult to communicate and explain to the public and to policy-makers, especially at the local level.
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de Boer, J., Aiking, H., Lammers, E., Sol, V., Feenstra, J. (1991). Contours of an integrated environmental index for application in land use zoning. In: Kuik, O., Verbruggen, H. (eds) In Search of Indicators of Sustainable Development. Environment & Management, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3246-6_9
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