The matrix shows whether all issues or goals are evenly addressed. This was used by the Alberta Roundtable in their final report. This is described in reports by the UN Commission on Sustainable Development . Endowments, liabilities, current results, and processes are headings in another table used by the US Interagency Working Group on Sustainable Development Indicators to check for balance among measures of what we are leaving for the future, what we have now, and what is happening to create both situations. None of these frameworks are the best framework.
Different frameworks work well for different purposes.
For organizing indicators in a report, a category list is easily understood by many people. The Goal-Indicator matrix is useful for showing whether the indicator set measures all the goals of a community. The Endowments framework can highlight the longer term aspects of sustainability. What is most important about the framework is that it works well for the intended purpose. All rights reserved.