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Sustainable Development Indicators


The purpose of the project "Sustainable development indicators in China" was to strengthen policy formulation and governance through developing indicators of social and environmental sustainability in China.

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The project developed a set of indicators of sustainable development that merges traditional sustainability indicators with insights derived from the Nordic model.

It brought together a research team from Chinese Academy for Science and Technology for Development (CASTED), Fafo and Statistics Norway.

Ultimately, the project constructed a set of indicators which will be published regularly in China by CASTED on the webpage of China Sustainable Wellbeing Index - SWI