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A Global Assessment of Sustainable Development Based on Modification of the Human Development Index via the Entropy Method
- Source :
- Sustainability, Volume 12, Issue 8, Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 3251, p 3251 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020.
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Abstract
- In response to the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, this paper proposes a new National Sustainable Development Index (NSDI), based on the modification of the Human Development Index (HDI). The purpose of our research was to improve the widely adopted HDI index by incorporating more comprehensive sustainability perspectives, so as to help policy makers to better analyze the sustainability-related issues facing their countries. After clarifying the concept of sustainable development, our research suggests that this term represents a coordination and configuration of economic, social, and environmental aspects of development, with its major focuses on balancing intra-generational welfare and maximizing the total welfare across generations. We then put forward a novel NSDI framework including 12 indicators from dimensions of economy, resource environment, and society, and calculated the weights of 12 indicators using the entropy method. To further validate our proposed index, this paper also measured the NSDIs of 163 countries in the world, and compared this index with the HDI and other well-known modification indices of HDI. The results showed that the NSDI is a reliable and relative complete index for sustainable development assessment, which makes up for the shortcomings of existing indices.
- Subjects :
- entropy method
Computer science
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Geography, Planning and Development
TJ807-830
010501 environmental sciences
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
TD194-195
01 natural sciences
Renewable energy sources
0502 economics and business
Entropy (information theory)
GE1-350
Environmental impact assessment
Human Development Index
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Sustainable development
sustainable development
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
05 social sciences
Economic surplus
Environmental economics
indicators
Environmental sciences
Sustainability
environmental assessment
Welfare
050203 business & management
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....95ebe45d76a8ae801c468f40e07e246c
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su12083251