Dynamic Sustainability. Sustainability Window Analysis of Chinese Poverty-Environment Nexus Development

Jyrki Luukkanen, Jari Kaivo-oja, Jarmo Vehmas, Juha Panula-Ontto and Laura Häyhä
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Jyrki Luukkanen: Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, Yliopistonkatu 58 D, 33100 Tampere, Finland
Jarmo Vehmas: Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, Yliopistonkatu 58 D, 33100 Tampere, Finland
Juha Panula-Ontto: Finland Futures Research Centre, University of Turku, Yliopistonkatu 58 D, 33100 Tampere, Finland
Laura Häyhä: Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä, Seminaarinkatu 15, 40014 Jyväskylän yliopisto, Finland

Sustainability, 2015, vol. 7, issue 11, 1-13

Abstract: Sustainability Window is a new analysis tool for assessing the sustainability of development simultaneously in all of its three dimensions (environmental, economic, and social). The analysis method provides information of the maximum and minimum economic development that is required to maintain the direction of social and environmental development towards more sustainable targets. With the Sustainability Window method it is possible to easily analyze the sustainability using different indicators and different time periods making comparative analyses easy. The new method makes it also possible to analyze the dynamics of the sustainability and the changes over time in the width of the window. This provides a new perspective for analyzing the trends of sustainability and the impacts of underlying sustainability policies. As an illustration of the method, we have carried out an analysis of Chinese development using CO 2 and SO 2 emissions as indicators of the environmental dimension, number of non-poor people as an indicator of the social dimension and GDP as an indicator of the economic dimension.

Keywords: sustainable development; methodology; indicator system; dynamics; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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