Wadden Sea Forum Sustainability Indicators for the Wadden Sea Region |
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With regard to contributing to a sustainable development in the Wadden Sea Region, the WSF has identified overall
sustainability objectives as well as sector-specific strategies for achieving these objectives. Sustainability indicators
were required to measure the actual status of sustainable development, as well as progress in achieving the objectives.
The WSF has assessed data from 2003 till 2010 according to the sustainability of the Wadden Sea Region.
The tool is based on a multi-level system with different levels of details. LEVEL 1 shows the overall temperature of
sustainable development in the Wadden Sea Region via summing up the Level 2 measurements for the social, the economic and
the ecological dimensions, respectively. LEVEL 2 measures are based on a scoring system with regard to assessments of the
indicator values in level 3. A positive, neutral or negative score is given for each of the 16 main objectives, i.e. whether
the status or trend is positive, neutral or negative with respect to the given objective. LEVEL 3 is two-folded; this level
contains the primary data of all sub-indicators (the indicators of level two are an aggregation of sub-indicators of level 3).
Furthermore, the data is assessed and attached with values due to the agreed objectives. These values feed in the scoring
system of level two.
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The results shown here reflect the overall temperature of the development of the three sustainability dimensions ecology,
economy and social situation in the Wadden Sea Region. Individual indicators, respectively sub-indicators like unemployment
rate or industrial chemical in bird eggs could influence the shape of the graphs and a healthy economy must not necessarily
have adverse impacts on ecology. To analyze the causes of the overall picture, the indicator tool has to be explored on the
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The scale of the ordinate in the graph is based on the division of the total score by the number of available indicators
in order to make it comparable.
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