Sustainable Development, Evaluation and Policy-Making: Theory, Practise and Quality Assurance edited by Anneke von Raggamby and Frieder Rubik

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-404
Author(s):  
Y. Laberge
Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 349
Author(s):  
Yuan Ma ◽  
Jingzhi Men ◽  
Mingyu Li ◽  
Xiaoyan Li

Rapid industrial development has caused a series of environmental problems, which is not conducive to sustainable development of society as a whole. It is necessary to build a sustainable development evaluation system. Most of the existing literature has evaluated corporate sustainable performance from the economy, environment and society on the basis of triple bottom lines. Considering the research gap and the practice need, an evaluation system is established from four dimensions, referred to as economy, society, environment and responsibility management, and 29 indicators are designed to measure these four dimensions. Twenty seven listed Chinese mining corporations are selected as research samples, and the entropy-weight-based Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method is applied to calculate indicators’ weights. Results show that the four dimensions of sustainable performance weights from high to low are society, environment, economy, and management process.


2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Léa Sébastien ◽  
Tom Bauler ◽  
Markku Lehtonen

This article examines the various roles that indicators, as boundary objects, can play as a science-based evidence for policy processes. It presents two case studies from the EU-funded POINT project that analyzed the use and influence of two highly different types of indicators: composite indicators of sustainable development at the EU level and energy indicators in the UK. In both cases indicators failed as direct input to policy making, yet they generated various types of conceptual and political use and influence. The composite sustainable development indicators served as “framework indicators”, helping to advocate a specific vision of sustainable development, whereas the energy indicators produced various types of indirect influence, including through the process of indicator elaboration. Our case studies demonstrate the relatively limited importance of the characteristics and quality of indicators in determining the role of indicators, as compared with the crucial importance of “user factors” (characteristics of policy actors) and “policy factors” (policy context).


2021 ◽  
Vol 271 ◽  
pp. 02016
Author(s):  
Jia Li ◽  
Shengxi Ding

Resources and environment is the carrier and material basis of regional sustainable development. Regional high-quality development must adhere to the protection of resources and environment. Based on the investigation and empirical analysis of the current situation of industrial development in Datong County of Qinghai Province, this paper puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions to promote the coordinated high-quality development of resources, environment and industry in Datong County.


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