Graphical sustainability analysis using disjoint biplots

José Fernando Romero Cañizares (), Purificación Vicente Galindo (), Yannis Phillis () and Evangelos Grigoroudis ()
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José Fernando Romero Cañizares: University of Salamanca
Purificación Vicente Galindo: University of Salamanca
Yannis Phillis: Technical University of Crete
Evangelos Grigoroudis: Technical University of Crete

Operational Research, 2022, vol. 22, issue 2, No 25, 1575-1596

Abstract: Abstract The assessment of sustainability is of the utmost importance nowadays. Several approaches exist that measure sustainability at a national level and rank countries accordingly. Comparison of countries could be done numerically or pictorially. This paper introduces a novel clustering disjoint HJ-biplot approach, which is then applied to data from two well-known models: Sustainability Assessment by Fuzzy Evaluation (SAFE) and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Index (UN-SDGs). This approach performs a graphical ranking that makes the sustainability standing of countries very transparent. As expected, the pictorial model yielded similar rankings to those of SAFE and UN-SDGs, but it additionally grouped countries according to their most important indicators, thereby yielding a more global picture of sustainability. Our approach thus comprises a useful complement to existing mathematical sustainability ranking models.

Keywords: Sustainability assessment; Biplots; Sustainability indicators; Graphical sustainability ranking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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