Triple bottom line taxonomies

February, 2004

The following is a list of selected taxonomies for triple bottom line — also called sustainable development — reporting:

A - Z Index (Victoria, Australia, environmental gateway)

Agricultural metadata element set project (AgMES) Includes a template for inserting metadata into Web pages and other documents, such as RDF schema and applications guidelines.

Agricultural ontology service

Biocomplexity thesaurus (National Biological Information Infrastructure)

ConservationEconomy Pattern Map TBL topics arranged as linked circles. Click a circle and get an explanation of that topic.

Core Knowledge Topics (Resources for the Future)

Ecoinformatics projects

EcoFoot Tabular display of resources consumed (the "footprint") by average households in different countries.

Environmental scenarios Documents and links on environmental scenario analysis, glossary

GEMET (GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus)

Global System for Sustainable Development Shows the intersection of industrial sector and sustainability problems & solutions

GRI guidelines a voluntary standard for reporting triple bottom line data

IISD Sustainable Development Classification tables Part of the IISD research library collection of books, articles, and tools.

Metadata systems for transport triple bottom line (PDF)

Multilingual virtual encyclopedia on sustainable development (requires password, free trial available)

OECD/EEA database on economic instruments Search for specific techniques by country or type.

o.s.EARTH Resource lab Sustainable development statistics presented in a variety of ways

The science/policy interface in logic–based evaluation of forest ecosystem sustainability (PDF)
see also the Powerpoint version at http://www.fsl.orst.edu/emds/powerpoint/sustscipol.pps

Sustainable development resource database (U. S. Department of Energy)

Sustainable measures Search a database of triple bottom line indicators

Sustainability's Business Case Matrix Interesting visualization of cross-cutting themes

World Resources Institute EarthTrends Includes databases, maps, data tables, country tables for environmental issues

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Created on February 26, 2004 l Updated on May 21, 2004