Working Draft Framework, Version 2, June 4, 1996
Definition Source: A Proposed Framework for Selecting a Set of Sustainable Development Indicators for U.S.
3.1 Economic Processes: Those activities, actions, and operations that involve the production and sale of goods and services. This includes the extraction of raw materials and natural resources. This framework element serves as a broad placeholder for all economic processes. All subcategories currently emphasize the driving forces that directly act upon an endowment. The SDI Group will eventually expand the definition to include the underlying economic processes that control the driving forces.
------3.1.5 Expenditures
------3.1.4 Income
------3.1.1 Man-Made Capital Changes
------3.1.2 Raw Material Production
------3.1.3 Waste Production
3.2 Environmental Processes: Those processes, actions, operations, and cycles that occur naturally in the environment without the intervention or aid of man. This framework element serves as a broad placeholder for all natural processes. All subcategories currently emphasize the driving forces that directly act upon an endowment. The SDI Group will eventually expand the definition to include all underlying environmental processes that control the driving forces.
------3.2.1 Alteration by Natural Events
------3.2.2 Biological Processes
------3.2.3 Large Scale Phenomena
3.3 Social Processes: Those activities, actions, and operations that involve the interaction between people. This framework element serves as a broad placeholder for all social processes. All subcategories currently emphasize the driving forces that directly act upon an endowment. The SDI Group will eventually expand the definition to include all underlying social processes that control the driving forces.
------3.3.1 Attrition
------3.3.2 Education and Training
------3.3.3 Experiencing
------3.3.4 Motivational Development or Loss
------3.3.5 Recruitment and Immigration
------3.3.6 Social Conflict