Overview document in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. This project has developed and tested methods for all three types of assessment: system assessment, self assessment and project assessment. Tools and methods are examined in detail in the individual booklets.
One in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. PRAM is a method to help planners, field workers and researchers reflect on a system from an early stage and thereby assist in identifying priority areas for action and research. PRAM can be used to assess any region, from a village to a continent.
One in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. This booklet describes a set of questions about people's relations with each other and the ecosystem. Its main purpose is to support self assessment, but it is also useful as an introduction to identifying changes in ecosystem and human wellbeing in system assessment.
One in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. This volume is designed to help an organisation develop a capacity for reflection by clarifying its mission, analysing what makes an institution reflective, and then restructuring accordingly.
One in a series of eight complementary documents developed for people interested in assessing sustainability. This booklet is to be used together with "Planning Action for Rural Sustainability". These two documents describe a method of system assessment for use by field teams and rural communities working together. It uses and adapts well known participatory tools for community participation.