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1.1. Indexes And Ethics -- 1.2. Chapter Overview -- 1.3. A Note On Terminology -- 2.1. Precursors To The Sustainability Movement -- 2.1.1. History -- 2.1.2. Definitions -- 2.2. The Sustainability Movement Emerges -- 2.2.1. The Brundtland Report -- 2.2.2. For The Common Good -- 2.2.3. Rio Earth Summit -- 2.3. Diversification After Rio -- 2.3.1. Sectorial Definitions -- 2.3.2. Monitoring And Reporting -- 2.3.3. Ethical Analyses -- 2.3.4. The Environmental Justice Movement -- 2.3.5. Rio+20 -- 2.4. Implications -- 3.1. Definitions Of Indexes And Indicators -- 3.2. Frameworks For Sustainability Indexes -- 3.3. Balancing Polarities In Index Development -- 3.4. Normative Priorities And Index Development -- 3.5. Incorporating Ethics Into Sustainability Indexes -- 4.1. Theory Of Pragmatic Ethical Principles -- 4.1.1. Peirce, Neville, And Vagueness -- 4.1.2. Muelder And Middle Axioms -- 4.1.3. Broad Principles For Ethics: Combining Insights Of Vague Categories And Middle Axioms -- 4.2. Ethical Systems -- 4.2.1. Introduction To The Ethical Systems -- 4.2.2. From Comparisons To Broad Principles -- 4.2.3. Broad Principles Of Sustainability Ethics -- A Working List -- 4.3. Potential Critiques Revisited -- 4.3.1. Why Not The Earth Charter? -- 4.3.2. Will The Broad Principles Be Acceptable? -- 4.4. Implementing The Broad Principles: A Preliminary Method -- 5.1. Carbon Emissions Indicators -- 5.2. The Three-dimensional Index Of Sustainable Energy Development (sed) -- 5.2.1. Foundations Of The Three-dimensional Index Of Sed -- 5.2.2. The Environmental Dimension -- 5.2.3. The Social Dimension -- 5.2.4. The Economic Dimension -- 5.2.5. An Assessment Of The Entire Three-dimensional Index -- 5.3. Prescott-allen's The Wellbeing Of Nations -- 5.4. The 2012 Environmental Performance Index (epi) -- 5.5. Eurostat's Sustainable Development Indicators (sdi) -- 5.6. Local Indexes -- 5.7. Ethical Strengths And Weaknesses Of Sustainability Indexes -- 6.1. Definitions Of Environmental Justice, Their Existing Connections To And Potential Contributions To Sustainability Studies -- 6.2. Methods Of Monitoring Environmental Justice -- 6.3. Contributions Of Environmental Justice Studies To Sustainability Indexes -- 7.1. Numerical Aggregation Methods -- 7.2. Map-based Aggregation Methods -- 7.3. Advantages Of Numerical And Map-based Aggregation Methods. Sarah E. Fredericks. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.