Resource description:
With an Indicator Library, Playbook and Toolkit, the Cornerstone Indicators combine participatory themes co-designed by stakeholders with existing metrics to create single, intuitively understandable narratives that represent complex inputs.
Cornerstone Ecologies, for example, focuses on the regenerative outcomes of local ecosystems. It looks at the integrated health of human and other-than-human nested systems.
The indicators are not intended to replace scientific measurements. Instead, they act as interfaces and balance points between the data and human lived experience. The framework is a flexible, modular process. It facilitates an open exploration of what matters, now and in the future, in local contexts. Using thematic analysis, diverse participatory and data inputs are analysed to identify common themes and the factors that contribute to them.
Case studies are in development with communities and organisations to implement the Cornerstone framework across different locations and systemic contexts, including Montreal, Scotland and Västerås in Sweden.
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