Aligning the Criteria of Green Economy (GE) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Implement Sustainable Development

Seyed Meysam Khoshnava, Raheleh Rostami, Rosli Mohamad Zin, Dalia Štreimikienė, Alireza Yousefpour, Wadim Strielkowski and Abbas Mardani
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Seyed Meysam Khoshnava: School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor 81310, Malaysia
Raheleh Rostami: Department of Architecture, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, 1584743311 Sari, Iran
Rosli Mohamad Zin: School of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor 81310, Malaysia
Dalia Štreimikienė: Kaunas Faculty, Vilnius University, Muitines 8, LT-06157 Kaunas, Lithuania
Alireza Yousefpour: Department of Computer engineering, Qaemshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, 1584743311 Qaemshahr, Iran

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 17, 1-23

Abstract: Global economic trends have shown the progression of social inequalities and environmental deterioration in the grey economy. New economic practices and policies need to be developed in order to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). A green economy (GE) has a correlative role with the implementation of sustainable development (SD), which could revive the grey economy, human well-being, and social equity, as well as substantially decrease environmental risks and ecological scarcities. This study aims to develop a hybrid methodological and mathematical approach to prioritize the most effective variables from classified GE and SDGs criteria (23 criteria) to implement SD. This study has deliberated over the Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) technique for considering interconnections among numerous criteria to collect the most effective variables (12 criteria) based on three pillars (3Ps) of SD. Likewise, the analytic network process (ANP) technique ranked these effective variables by considering their network relations based on three indicators. Lastly, integration was used to finalize and prioritize the most effective variables based on their weight from the ANP technique. This study will highlight the green economy with exclusive environmental issues and sustainable growth as the greatest effective variables among GE and SDGs criteria for SD implementation.

Keywords: green economy (GE); sustainable development goals (SDGs); environmental issues; sustainable economic growth; overall social wellbeing; environmental quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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