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The human green development can be reflected through many kinds of indicators such as welfare indicators, green economy indicators, and environment, resources and ecology indicators, involving more than 20 indicator systems. In this research, we have employed many green economy indicators for comparison, including the wealth accounting and the valuation of ecosystem services (WAVES) initiated by the World Bank, UNEP’s manual on the use of green economy indicators, OECD’s green growth indicators, EEA’s green economy indicators, and the global green economy index (GGEI), etc. Being most typical of their kind and reflecting the HGDI in the most straightforward way is one important principle in our selection of indicators. Besides, we also took great inspirations from the HDI initiated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). And more notably, the goals and targets of MDGs and SDGs gave us more direct guidance on how to choose indicators.
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Li, X., Liu, Y. (2014). Choosing HGDI Indicators and Constructing Indicator System. In: Li, X. (eds) Human Green Development Report 2014. Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43591-5_3
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