Socioeconomic sustainability as environmental performance indicators

Abstract

Environmental indicators are gaining importance for nation to measure quantitative evidence of environment conditions. Global Environmental Performance Index has established comprehensive indicators on measuring and tracking a country environmental performance. The two major objectives of Global EPI are to measure Environmental Public Health and Ecosystem Vitality performance. This paper intends to introduce and explain a new objective, known as Socioeconomic Sustainability that has been implemented in Malaysia EPI and highlights the rationale of having this objective. Later, the paper explains the new environmental performance policy category under the Socioeconomic Sustainability, including resource efficiency, environmental awareness and behaviour and environmental compliance. The paper concludes by outline the challenges associate with each new indicators.