scholarly journals Designing a Sustainable Development Goal Index through a Goal Programming Model: The Case of EU-28 Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Guijarro ◽  
Juan Poyatos
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Goal Programming ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Goal Programming Model ◽  
Promote Gender Equality

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations are at the center of the global political agenda to eradicate extreme poverty, achieve universal education, promote gender equality and ensure environmental sustainability between others. These goals are organised in 169 indicators, which give an accurate perspective on the main dimensions related with country sustainable development. To gain insight into the relative position of involved countries, it is necessary to develop a composite index that summarises the global progress in the achievement of these goals, but considering possible conflicts and trade-offs between individual SDGs. The objective of this paper is to introduce a Goal Programming model to calculate a composite SDG index, capable of overcoming some of the limitations of celebrated approaches such as arithmetic and geometric averages. The proposed model balances between two extreme solutions: one which calculates a consensus index that reflects the majority trend of the SDGs, and another one which biases the estimated index towards those SDGs that show the most discrepancy with the rest. The model is applied on the EU-28 countries, and shows that the best performing countries regarding the sustainable development are Austria and Luxembourg, while Greece and Romania remain as the worst performers.

Planning sustainable development through a scenario-based stochastic goal programming model

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 789-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raja Jayaraman ◽  
Cinzia Colapinto ◽  
Danilo Liuzzi ◽  
Davide La Torre
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Goal Programming ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Goal Programming Model ◽  
Stochastic Goal Programming

Assessing Options in Resource Use for Renewable Energy through Multiobjective Goal Programming

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 1323-1338 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Cocklin ◽  
S C Lonergan ◽  
B Smit
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Goal Programming ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Resource Assessment ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Goal Programming Model ◽  
Plantation Development ◽  
Energy Plantations

Forest-energy plantations have been recognized as a possible source of renewable energy throughout the world, but the regional consequences of extensive plantation development have not been considered. In an effort to understand better the trade-offs that exist between economic, environmental, and energy concerns associated with regional development projects, a goal-programming model of forest-energy plantation development in Eastern Ontario, Canada has been developed. The results indicate not only the potential for energy plantations, but the utility in using goal-programming as a resource-assessment tool as well. The method is particularly useful in identifying potential conflicts among regional development goals, and can also address uncertainties with respect to decision priorities and production relationships.

scholarly journals A Multicriteria Model for the Assessment of Countries’ Environmental Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (16) ◽  
pp. 2868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Guijarro
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Goal Programming ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Value Drivers ◽  
Goal Programming Model ◽  
Multicriteria Model ◽  
Ranking Countries

Countries are encouraged to integrate environmental performance metrics by covering the key value-drivers of sustainable development, such as environmental health and ecosystem vitality. The proper measurement of environmental trends provides a foundation for policymaking, which should be addressed by considering the multicriteria nature of the problem. This paper proposes a goal programming model for ranking countries according to the multidimensional nature of their environmental performance metrics by considering 10 issue categories and 24 performance indicators. The results will provide guidance to those countries that aspire to become leaders in environmental performance.

Analysis of pre-service teachers’ perception towards the economic, environmental, social and cultural dimensions of Education for Sustainable Development

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 972-978
Author(s):  
Manisha Jetly ◽  
Dr. Nandita Singh
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Class Room

Education for sustainable development (ESD) enjoys a huge momentum worldwide in which the role of teachers for making sustainable development goals a reality has been recognized significantly. Teachers through their knowledge, attitudes and skills can bring the learning about these concepts to the curriculum and class room interaction and are in a position to influence their students. Therefore it is pertinent, that teachers are sensitised towards these issues, so that they prepare and nurture their students for making appropriate and responsible choices which contribute to a sustainable future. At this juncture it becomes crucial to understand their priorities and awareness level in context of the sustainable development. The present research paper aims to analyse the perception of forty post graduate pre-service teachers of the Chandigarh region, towards ESD through the dimensions of economic sustainability, environmental sustainability, social sustainability and cultural sustainability. For this researchers have adopted qualitative content analysis methodology for an in-depth study of the subjective responses through an open ended question. The findings suggest that most of the respondents associated the perception of ESD strongly with environmental sustainability. It is noted that the pre-service teachers lack a holistic approach towards ESD. On the basis of the findings it is recommended that there is an urgent need of integrating the concept of ESD consciously and conscientiously in India’s teacher education programmes.

scholarly journals A Multicriteria Goal Programming Model for Ranking Universities

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 459
Author(s):  
Fernando García ◽  
Francisco Guijarro ◽  
Javier Oliver
Keyword(s):  
Goal Programming ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
Central Tendency ◽  
Performance Variables ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
Goal Programming Model ◽  
Objective Quantification

This paper proposes the use of a goal programming model for the objective ranking of universities. This methodology has been successfully used in other areas to analyze the performance of firms by focusing on two opposite approaches: (a) one favouring those performance variables that are aligned with the central tendency of the majority of the variables used in the measurement of the performance, and (b) an alternative one that favours those different, singular, or independent performance variables. Our results are compared with the ranking proposed by two popular World University Rankings, and some insightful differences are outlined. We show how some top-performing universities occupy the best positions regardless of the approach followed by the goal programming model, hence confirming their leadership. In addition, our proposal allows for an objective quantification of the importance of each variable in the performance of universities, which could be of great interest to decision-makers.

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