Measurement of Composites Index on Low Carbon Development Supporting Food Security

Dwi Sartika Adetama, Akhmad Fauzi, Bambang Juanda and Dedi Budiman Hakim
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Dwi Sartika Adetama: Agency for Food Security, Ministry of Agriculture, Jakarta 12550, Indonesia
Akhmad Fauzi: Regional and Rural Development Planning, Faculty of Economics and Management, IPB University, Bogor 16880, Indonesia
Bambang Juanda: Regional and Rural Development Planning, Faculty of Economics and Management, IPB University, Bogor 16880, Indonesia
Dedi Budiman Hakim: International Centre for Applied Finance and Economics, Department of Economics, IPB University, Bogor 16680, Indonesia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 23, 1-17

Abstract: Since the concept of low carbon development (LCD) was adopted at the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit, Indonesia has been committed to implementing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In 2020, the country issued Presidential Regulation No. 18, which made LCD one of the national priority programs to maintain economic and social through low emission activities and reduce the overexploitation of natural resources. The LCD is a way for the country to overcome the tradeoff between economic growth and environmental degradation. Nevertheless, LCD is a new initiative for Indonesia, so it needs strategic indicators that influence the achievement of development. This paper attempts to integrate macro-regional development indicators that combine each region’s gross domestic product, human development index, and unemployment rate with LCD indicators, including the environmental quality index and g reenhouse gas emissions. The combined indicators were constructed by composite index through the Shannon entropy method, geometric and arithmetic means using the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method. The results show significant differences among provinces concerning to macro-regional indicators once the LCD indicators were incorporated. The results of this analysis could be used by policymakers to evaluate the green development of regions.

Keywords: low carbon development; low carbon development index; composite index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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