N. Fanai et Dh. Burn, REVERSIBILITY AS A SUSTAINABILITY CRITERION FOR PROJECT SELECTION, International journal of sustainable development and world ecology, 4(4), 1997, pp. 259-273
Integration of sustainability issues into the project selection proces
s requires new approaches to decision-making. A framework is proposed
for measuring reversibility as one component for achieving this goal.
Reversibility in the context of this research is defined as the degree
to which the aggregated set of anticipated or unanticipated impacts o
f a development project can be mitigated. Several concepts found in th
e sustainable development literature are used in the framework. The ef
ficacy of the framework is tested in a case study involving constructi
on of hydropower transmission and distribution lines.