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p.10 Indicators are instruments to define and monitor those aspects
of a system that provide the most reliable clues as to its overall well-being (Slobodkin, 1994). They are
used, in other words, to provide cost and time-effective feedback on the health of a system without necessarily
examining all components of that system. According to proponents, the validity of indicators is based on
the degree to which the wider network of components and relationships in which they are situated link together in a relatively
stable and self-regulating manner (Slobodkin, 1994), and the degree to which the indicators themselves represent
the most salient or critical aspects of the system that can be monitored over time (Andrews and Withey, 1976).
From Fish for the People, Volume 1, 2006:
we see that we need a direction to take and we also need
to be able to check if we are actually going that way, however slowly. In the language of internationally funded projects’
LogFrames, we come to Objectively Verifiable Indicators (OVIs). Indicators are instruments to define and monitor those
aspects of a system that provide the most reliable evidence as to its overall well-being. They are used to provide cost-effective
and time-effective feedback on the health of a system without necessarily examining all components of that system.
From 'Capacity for Change': Testing a Model for the Inclusion
of Social Indicators in Australia's National Land and Water Resources Audit, pp.813-826
Volume 45, Issue 6, November 6, 2002
Authors: Stewart
Lockie ; Geoffrey Lawrence ; Allan Dale ;Bruce Taylor
From this perspective, the validity of individual indicators rests on the degree to which the wider network of components
and relationships in which they are nested hangs together in a relatively stable and self-regulating manner.
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