Review on Assessment Index of Sustainable Development

Sustainable development is one of hot issues in the world today. As an important tool for implementing sustainable development strategy,sustainable development index is the hot point of sustainability research. Based on analysis of general procedures and methodologies of establishment of sustainable development index,the status of assessment index of sustainable development at home and abroad were summarized. Key research frontiers of sustainable development index in near future were proposed including study of connotation and extension of sustainability science,formatting analysis of sustainable development index system,reducing impact of human factors on composite index,the methods in general for assessment of applicability,transparency and accuracy of composite index as well as application of assessment index of sustainable development.