PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA FOR DECISION-MAKING

The new paradigm of sustainability necessitates revisions to tradition al decision-making processes. This paper, which is the first in a seri es of four, outlines the changes required for decision-making to refle ct sustainability concerns. Three sustainability criteria, that are th e focus of the three subsequent papers, are introduced and the rationa le for each is explained. A framework for incorporating the three sust ainability criteria into the decision-making process is briefly outlin ed. The paper ends with the introduction to a case study, the North Ce ntral Project (NCP) for electricity supply alternatives. The NCP is us ed in the three following papers to demonstrate the individual compone nts of the new approach to sustainable decision-making.