Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: The Brave New Frontier of Sustainability: Where are We? -- Introduction -- What is sustainable development? -- Gauging progress -- Multiple perspectives -- Public participation: talk and action -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Sustainability Indicators: A Brief Review -- Introduction -- Indicators of sustainable development -- Integration of sustainable development indicators -- The reference condition -- Using indicators of sustainable development -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Systemic Sustainability Analysis and Prospective -- Introduction -- Personal background to the field work -- The importance of the subjective -- Background to CAMP Malta -- Technical specification for SSA -- Familiarizing the Maltese SSA team -- What are SSA and SPSA and how are they different? -- SPSA and Blue Plan approaches -- Chapter 4: Doing SPSA: Some Reflective Experience -- Introduction -- Stage 1: Find out how things are: reflection -- Stage 2: Understand the context for sustainability indicators: reflection/connection -- Stage 3: Gather the stakeholders in the sustainability indicator process: reflection/connection -- Stage 4: Get clear on methods: connection -- Stage 5: Identify the stakeholder coalitions: connection -- Stage 6: Identify and agree the main SIs: cennection/modelling -- Stage 7: Identify and agree the band of equilibrium: modelling -- Stage 8: Develop the AMOEBA in a collaborative manner: modelling/doing -- Stage 9: Think about how the AMOEBA extends over time: modelling/doing -- Stage 10: Unpack and understand the AMOEBA - futures: modelling/doing -- Stage 11: Responding to 'good' and 'bad' AMOEBA - policy implications: doing -- Stage 12: Making changes top the SI mix in the light of practice: doing/reflecting.

Chapter 5: New Frontiers of Practice -- Introduction -- New ways of thinking about sustainability indicators -- Other dimensions to sustainability indicators -- Applying the learning cycle in sustainable development -- Summary -- Chapter 6: The End of a Journey? -- Appendix 1: Systemic and Prospective Sustainability Analysis (SPSA) in Malta -- Notes -- Chapter 1: The Brave New Frontier of Sustainability: Where are We? -- Chapter 2: Sustainability Indicators: A Brief Review -- Chapter 3: Systemic Sustainability Analysis and Prospective -- Chapter 4: Doing SPSA: Some Reflective Experience -- Chapter 5: New Frontiers of Practice -- References -- Index -- Other titles available from Earthscan.