1. Sustainability Assessment Methodologies: Implications and Challenges for SIDS
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Chandradeo Bokhoree and Pierre Olivier St Flour
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Sustainable development ,Process management ,Ecology ,020209 energy ,small island developing states ,triple bottom line approach ,Developing country ,02 engineering and technology ,010501 environmental sciences ,01 natural sciences ,Social dimension ,country level assessment ,Country level ,sustainability assessment ,Work (electrical) ,Political science ,Sustainability ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Sustainability measurement ,Small Island Developing States ,QH540-549.5 ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Abstract
Over the past years, an increasing number of initiatives was considered to address emerging global sustainability issues. Sustainability assessment tools were the most commonly applied methodologies towards measuring sustainability performance. There are a number of assessment tools and techniques for sustainable development. This article aims at identifying the various sustainability assessment tools at country level taking into consideration the integration of environmental, economic, and social dimensions. The target of this paper is to compare the various sustainability measurement techniques and their characteristics using evaluation criteria. The outcome of this analysis is used to direct and clarify researchers and practitioners on sustainability assessment at country level, more specifically in developing countries. The focus of the paper rests on the Brundtland Report definition of sustainable development. The work was carried out using a bibliometric analysis approach based on Web of Science platform from the period 2000 to 2020. There was tremendous works which were conducted on sustainability assessment during the last two decades. The comparative analyses show the research gap among the various tools with respect to the criteria they satisfied. The research discussion suggests that a sustainability assessment framework for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) is identified as a future research direction.
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- 2021