Institute of Environmental Technology, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Jul 2;15(7):1391. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15071391.
The needs of children and their vulnerability to diseases, violence and poverty are different from those of adults. The Sustainable Child Development Index (SCDI) was thus developed in previous work to evaluate the status of sustainable development for countries with a focus on children and triple-bottom-line thinking. This study proposes application options to put the SCDI into practice. The SCDI can be performed similarly to existing development indices, for comparing and tracing the performance of sustainable development on different geographic levels and between population groups. In addition, the SCDI can be integrated into existing social sustainability assessment approaches (e.g., Social Life Cycle Assessment and Social Organizational Life Cycle Assessment) and databases (e.g., The Social Hotspots Database) to take children into account and enhance impact assessment of social sustainability assessment approaches. As an exemplification, this study demonstrates the application of the SCDI framework to support the development of social impact pathways. Due to the importance of tertiary education in reducing poverty, a preliminary social impact pathway addressing completion of tertiary education was established. By putting the SCDI into practice, the SCDI can support decision making in child as well as sustainable development policies.
儿童的需求及其对疾病、暴力和贫困的脆弱性与成年人不同。因此，可持续儿童发展指数（SCDI）在上一版工作中得到了发展，以评估各国儿童可持续发展的状况，并采用三重底线思维。本研究提出了将 SCDI 付诸实践的应用选项。SCDI 可以像现有发展指数一样执行，用于比较和跟踪不同地理层面和人口群体之间可持续发展的表现。此外，SCDI 可以集成到现有的社会可持续性评估方法（例如，社会生命周期评估和社会组织生命周期评估）和数据库（例如，社会热点数据库）中，以考虑儿童并增强社会可持续性评估方法的影响评估。作为例证，本研究展示了 SCDI 框架在支持社会影响途径发展方面的应用。由于高等教育对减少贫困的重要性，建立了一个初步的解决高等教育完成问题的社会影响途径。通过实施 SCDI，可以在儿童和可持续发展政策方面支持决策制定。
