Gateway Sites

1. This site: http://weber.u.washington.edu/~common/ has a wealth of information, on sustainability research and implementation at the community and regional levels that is conveniently formatted for accessing different topics, including indicators. One of the areas that is addressed is " Indicators of a Sustainable Community"
   
   
2. ICLEI was established in 1990, in a partnership with UNEP, International Union of Local Authorities (IULA), and the Center for Innovative Diplomacy (CID). This site: http://www.iclei.org/ provides a great deal of useful information for sustainability initiatives in general and indicator development in particular.
   
   
3. The Tourism Policy Group's web site: http://www.moc.govt.nz/tpg/, as distinct from the New Zealand Tourism Board (a marketing body similar to the Canadian Travel and Tourism Commission), was set up by the government of New Zealand to address the long term sustainability of tourism in New Zealand from a resource use perspective.
   
   

   Other Links

   1. The IISD is an organization recognized by UNEP and funded by Environment Canada, CIDA and the Province of Manitoba to promote sustainable development. The IISD operates a very large web site (http://iisd1.iisd.ca/) on all issues related to sustainable development.
      
      
   2. In addition to being a top gateway site, this ICLEI site:http://www.iclei.org/ also qualifies as a top web site. ICLEI accesses information on local sustainability projects, best practices, policy and practices publications and a project summary series which includes case studies from around the world.
      
      
   3. This site: http://www.subjectmatters.com/indicators can be accessed through the ICLEI gateway (as well as numerous others) or directly by its URL. This site includes a useful set of information on: everything you always wanted to know about indicators; indicators by category and "what is sustainability, anyway?"
      
      
   4. This site: http://www.sustainable.org/ wasn't referenced by any of the Gateway Sites noted above so is best accessed by its URL. This site is maintained to assist US "grass roots" sustainability projects to communicate the details of their sustainability initiatives to each other.
      
      
   5. This site: http://www.moc.govt.nz/tpg/pubs/bib96, one of the options within the overall tourism policy group's site, provides an excellent bibliography of 498 titles addressing many different aspects of sustainable tourism, and development of appropriate indicators.
      
      
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