scholarly journals Evaluation of Sustainable Development Indicators With Fuzzy TOPSIS Based on Subjective and Objective Weights

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nang Idayu Nik Zahari ◽  
Mohd Lazim Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Quality Factor ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Fuzzy Topsis ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Ecological Protection ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACT: Sustainable development aims at improving and maintaining the well-being of people and the ecology. However, this paper focuses only on the ecological aspects. The selection of the proper ecological protection determinant plays a very important role in improving the environment of Malaysia. This paper will propose a method from Wang and Lee (2009), and Yong (2006) which applies a fuzzy TOPSIS method -- based on subjective and objective weights – to make the required selection. Four alternatives will be tested which are: prevent pollution (A1), conservation (A2), well-manage (A3), and public awareness (A4). Along with these, four criteria need to be considered: water quality factor (C1), land integrity factor (C2), air quality factor (C3), and biodiversity factor (C4). Finally, a numerical example of ecological protection determinant selection is used to illustrate the proposed method. ABSTRAK: Pembangunan lestari bermatlamat memperbaiki dan mengekalkan kesejahteraan rakyat serta ekologi. Walau bagaimanapun, kertas kajian ini hanya memberi tumpuan kepada aspek-aspek ekologi. Pemilihan penentu perlindungan serta keselamatan bagi aspek ekologi memainkan peranan yang amat penting dalam meningkatkan kualiti alam sekitar di Malaysia. Kertas kajian ini telah menggunakan kaedah Wang dan Lee (2009) dan Yong (2006) yang mengaplikasikan kaedah TOPSIS kabur berdasarkan pemberat subjektif dan objektif. Terdapat empat alternatif yang akan diuji iaitu: pencegahan pencemaran (A1), pemuliharaan (A2), pengurusan yang baik (A3), kesedaran orang awam (A4). Selain itu, terdapat empat kriteria yang perlu dipertimbangkan: faktor kualiti air (C1), faktor kualiti tanah (C2), faktor kualiti udara (C3), faktor kepelbagaian biologi (C4). Kesimpulannya, contoh pengiraan untuk memperoleh penentu pemilihan perlindungan ekologi telah digunakan bagi menunjukkan kaedah yang dicadangkan.KEYWORDS: sustainable development; ecological factors; subjective and objective weight; fuzzy TOPSIS

scholarly journals Selection Process of Sustainable Indicators for the Algarve Region—OBSERVE Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fátima Farinha ◽  
Miguel Oliveira ◽  
Elisa Silva ◽  
Rui Lança ◽  
Manuel Pinheiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Engagement Process ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
Selection Of

The selection of indicators for the Observatory of Sustainability of the Algarve Region for Tourism (OBSERVE), poses challenges, namely which indicators are relevant to stakeholders and how to assure that information is available. To support the selection of the environmental, sociocultural, economic and institutional indicators, an engagement process was designed and applied, which included meetings with stakeholders, a workshop and an online survey. The results showed that both workshop and online surveys reflected, in general, similar opinions, thus allowing the selecting of the sustainable development indicators for the Algarve region. Additionally, the results showed that nearly 75% of the indicators can be obtained from national statistics and, therefore, can be used on the OBSERVE project, assuring a quick flow of information. As limitations, it is important to mention that the other 25% will need further development, in order to provide data for indicators, like carbon management and client satisfaction. With this approach, the observatory will survey and evaluate the sustainable development of the region (status and trends), based on indicators that answer to the strategic needs of system’s main users, with social and economic implications, i.e., public institutions, economic agents, tourists, local communities and residents.

scholarly journals COMPARATIVE ASPECTS REGARDING THE TAXATION SYSTEM IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

InterConf ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Maria Hămuraru ◽  
Alina Cojocaru
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Tax System ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
The Republic ◽  
High Level ◽  
Taxation System

This article reveals the comparative analysis of the tax system from Denmark and Norway which, although have a progressive tax system, also have a high level of social and economic well-being. The premise for the welfare state in Denmark and Norway lies in the awareness of all economic agents, including households, that taxes and fees contribute to ensuring sustainable development. Sustainable development represents all forms and methods of socio-economic development, focused on ensuring the balance between social, economic, ecological aspects and the elements of natural capital. Furthermore, there are researched ways to bond the tax system in the Republic of Moldova to international practices in order to ensure a high level of quality of life and sustainable development.

scholarly journals Mainstreaming the ‘Brown’ Agenda

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 6660
Author(s):  
Pranita Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Ecological Protection ◽  
Environment And Development

‘Sustainable development’ is a term that came into use after the Brundtland Commission’s report on global environment and development in 1987. This term is also referred to as an ‘oxymoron’ as it comprises two words ‘sustainable’ and ‘development’ that are in many ways contradictory to each other—well illustrated by the clear divisions between the ‘green’ and the ‘brown’ agendas. This paper attempts to empirically represent this contradictory nature of the term through a specific case of ecological protection of a river versus human well-being of squatters within the context of a developing country in South Asia. The paper argues for the need to explicitly emphasize the justice aspect of sustainable development through mainstreaming the ‘brown’ agenda.

scholarly journals Systemic Sustainable Development in the Transport Service Sector

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9525
Author(s):  
Izabela Sztangret
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Systemic Development ◽  
Systems View ◽  
Analytical Approaches

The concept of sustainability and sustainable development, especially systemic sustainable development, still raises controversy in literature. The article makes an attempt to re-examine these concepts from a systems perspective, seeking foundations and applications in the selected sector. It is becoming increasingly clear that sustainability and sustainable development are aimed at integrated economic, social, cultural, political, and ecological factors. This causes a need for a constructive approach to the issue, taking into account all the actors, areas and dimensions involved in the pursuit of systemic sustainable development. As a result, both local and global dimensions and the way they interact must be explored in a multifaceted manner in order to offer a perspective more effective and useful than other analytical approaches, as the systems view is a way of thinking in terms of connectedness, relationships, and context. The article aims to review selected publications and studies so as to form the general idea of systemic sustainable development and define the systemic development of sustainable transport, including in particular the perspective of the actors of the sector, transport providers (passenger, urban), and transport development program, implemented both by local governments and on the European scale. An attempt was made to identify elements of the systemic sustainable development model, setting it in the reality of the following subcategories: “Society”, “Economy”, and “Environment” in sectoral terms. It is supposed that systemic sustainable development is a conglomerate of public administration entities, companies operating in the sector, individual and corporate customers, acting in certain conditions for economic, social, and environmental well-being, and a number of their initiatives of major or minor significance, grouped in six sub-areas, undertaken to achieve systemic value in the examined sector, with a positive or negative business/economic, social, and environmental impact.

scholarly journals Systemic Sustainable Development in the Transport Service Sector

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabela Sztangret
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Systemic Development ◽  
Systems View ◽  
Analytical Approaches

The concept of sustainability and sustainable development, especially systemic sustainable development, still raises controversy in literature. The article makes an attempt to re-examine these concepts from a systems perspective, seeking foundations and applications in the selected sector. It is becoming increasingly clear that sustainability and sustainable development are aimed at integrated economic, social, cultural, political, and ecological factors [1[,[2] (pp.641-642). This causes that the constructive approach to the issue is required, taking into account all the actors, areas and dimensions involved in the pursuit of systemic sustainable development. As a result, both local and global dimensions and the way they interact must be explored in a multi-faceted manner in order to offer a perspective more useful than other analytical approaches, because the systems view is a way of thinking in terms of connectedness, relationships, and context [3]. The article aims to review selected publications and studies so as to form the general idea of systemic sustainable development and define the systemic development of sustainable transport, including in particular the perspective of the actors of the sector, transport providers (passenger, urban) and transport development program, implemented both by local governments and on the European scale. An attempt was made to identify elements of the systemic sustainable development model, setting it in the reality of the following subcategories: “Society”, “Economy” and “Environment” in sectoral terms. It is supposed that, systemic sustainable development is a conglomerate of public administration entities, companies operating in the sector, individual and corporate customers, acting in certain conditions for economic, social and environmental well-being, and a number of their initiatives of major or minor significance, grouped in six sub-areas, undertaken to achieve systemic value in the examined sector, with a positive or negative business/economic, social and environmental impact.

scholarly journals APPROACH TO ELABORATION OF INTEGRAL INDICATORS FOR ASSESMENT OF SPATIAL OBJECTS CHARACTERISTICS AND ANALYSES OF TYPICAL ERRORS (ON THE BASE OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS AND RUSSIAN REGIONS AS AN EXAMPLE)

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivan Rubanov
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Management Indicators ◽  
Territorial Unit ◽  
Administrative Division ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Field Plots ◽  
Personal Decision ◽  
Statistical Indicators ◽  
Selection Of

Integral indicators (further – II) in geography is a measurement composed of many simple indicators to characterize complex properties of spatial phenomenon. II is subjective, since a sci-entist should make personal decision to choose approach, the way of mathematic processing and integration of initial data to compos II. Composing II consists of a few stages: definition of the object and the focus of the research; definition of territorial units – their scale and boundaries; selection of particular indicators and their initial structuring (gathering in subgroups); normalizing indicators using threshes; defining weights of particular indicators and algorithm of their in-tegration for II calculation. Verification of results could be done using comparison of calculated and real values in well-known field plots. If it is impossible then cartographic visualization is used – chaotic mix of areas with different II values which resemble patchwork quilt is a witness of mistakes in methodology and selected approach. Typical errors while composing II are: the object and the focus of the research are not defined; dimensionality of indicators is wrong; irrel-evant indicators is used; failed approach to definition the scale or type of territorial units; irrele-vant approach to definition of threshes or inaccurate expert definition of threshes, in particular incorrect application of minimal and maximum values in dataset as low/high threshes. When as-pects of sustainable development are investigated and in many other cases pressure, state, reac-tion and management indicators incorrectly mixed and used together. When territory of Russia is in focus typical errors are: using regions as basic territorial unit (higher administrative division level) instead of natural areas or lower level division, incorrect statistic data deriving for multi-unit regions, mixing divergent socio-economic indicators and also – using unreliable (for some regions) statistical indicators.

scholarly journals The Environmental Assessment of Urban Agglomerations on the Basis of Sustainable Development Indicators

2019 ◽  
pp. 143-156
Author(s):  
Elena Ivantsova ◽  
Margarita Postnova ◽  
Vadim Sagalaev ◽  
Anna Matveeva ◽  
Anna Kholodenko
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Capital Inflows ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Stability

The article discusses the indicators of sustainable development given from the standpoint of the classical concept of sustainable development. The methods used are analyzed to identify criteria for sustainable development. The indicators of sustainable development have been known and developed for a long time. However, their development did not take into account the regional fix, which would allow creating a permanent set of the most representative indicators for a certain territory. Volgograd and Rostov agglomerations are chosen as objects. A complex analysis of the regional indicators of sustainable development is carried out taking into account physiographic, climatic, sectoral features, the economic potential and ecological well-being of Volgograd and Rostov agglomerations. The work assesses the ecological and economic sustainability of the agglomerations under study, which allows to give the comparative analysis of the territory development predictive models. Today, it is still too early to talk about the effectiveness of achieving criteria for sustainable development in urban agglomerations. The accepted methods cannot be considered effective due to the fact that the efforts of all areas of management are needed. In the forecast, we can talk about a slight increase in the stability of Rostov agglomeration due to capital inflows. Taking into account current trends, Volgograd agglomeration can face a gradual decrease in sustainability requiring an immediate intervention.

scholarly journals A thermoeconomic indicator for the sustainable development with social considerations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umberto Lucia ◽  
Debora Fino ◽  
Giulia Grisolia
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Human Development Index ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Thermodynamic Quantity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Agenda 21 ◽  
Development Index ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Economic Considerations

AbstractThe United Nations action plan Agenda 21 has represented a milestone toward Sustainable Development. On its 40th Chapter, it is introduced the requirement to dispose of an accurate and continuous collection of information, essential for decision-making. Besides bridging the data gap and improving the information availability, it is highlighted the need to dispose of sustainable development indicators, in order to assess and monitor the performances of countries toward sustainability. In this paper, we develop an improvement of a new indicator, recently introduced linking environmental anthropic footprint and social and industrial targets. Here, we suggest a link with the Income Index, in order to consider also a condition of people well-being. Our results consists in an improvement of the present approaches to sustainability; indeed, we link the socio-economic considerations, quantified by the Income Index and the Human Development Index, to the engineering approach to optimization, introducing the thermodynamic quantity entropy generation, related to irreversibility. In this way, two different new indicators are introduced, the Thermodynamic Income Index and the Thermodynamic Human Development Index, which quantitatively express a new viewpoint, which goes beyond the dichotomy between socio-economic considerations on one hand and engineering and scientific approach to sustainability on the other one. So, the result leads to a unified tool useful for the designing of new policies and interventions for a sustainable development for the next generations.

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