Circles of Sustainability is a method for understanding and assessing sustainability, and for project management directed towards socially sustainable outcomes. It is intended to handle ‘seemingly intractable problems’ such as outlined in sustainable development debates. The method is mostly used for cities and urban settlements. The style of the charts themselves could be described as a mixture of radar chart and bar chart.
The method began with a fundamental dissatisfaction with current approaches to sustainability and sustainable development, which tended to treat economics as the core domain and ecology as an externality. The researchers developed a method and an integrated set of tools for assessing and monitoring issues of sustainability while providing guidance for project development.
Presented by lecturer/Dr.Hardi K.Abdullah
