Sustainable development in Europe : concepts evaluation and applications Evaluating sustainable development is becoming increasingly important in policy making evaluation practice and the scientific world in general. However at present there is neither a generally accepted set of measures and evaluation methods nor specific standards to be met. Sustainable Development in Europe addresses these issues and presents an important and concise analysis of state of the art sustainable development evaluation policies programmes and projects currently at work in Europe pt. 1. Sustainable development : making the concept operational for evaluation pt. 2. Methods of evaluating SD pt. 3. National evaluation culture.