Recognition of the scale of change necessary to move the economy towards a more sustainable footing underlines the need to underpin the management and decision making process with methodologies, tools and techniques which provide a knowledge and evidence base about the interactions between our economies and the environment and the impacts of these interactions. 

SRI uses a range of tools and techniques to provide a robust and transparent evidence base.  These include:

• Modelling and measurement
• Ecological and Carbon Accounting
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Decision Support
• Scenario Modelling

These are briefly described in this section and further information on the range of tools and techniques and how they can be applied to inform policy and decision making can be found in the updates and downloads section.