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e c o l o g i c a l i n d i c a t o r s 9 ( 2 0 0 9 ) 1 8 9 – 2 1 2 available at www.sciencedirect .com jour nal homepage: /locate/ecolind Review An overview of sustainability assessment methodologies Rajesh Kumar Singh a,*, H.R. Murty a, S.K. Gupta b, A.K. Dikshit b a Bhilai Steel Plant, SAIL, Bhilai, India b Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Sustainability indicators and composite index are increasingly recognised as a useful tool Received 11 February 2008 for policy making and public communication in conveying information on countries and Received in revised form corporate performance in fields such as environment, economy, society, or technological 12 May 2008 improvement. By visualizing phenomena and highlighting trends, sustainability indicators Accepted 21 May 2008 simplify, quantify, analyse and communicate otherwise complex and complicated informa- tion. There are number of initiatives working on indicators and frameworks for sustainable Keywords: development (SD). This article provides an overview various sustainability indices applied in Sustainable development policy practice. The paper also compiles the information related to sustainability indices Sustainability indicators formulation strategy, scaling, normalisation, weighti