A NAIADE based approach for sustainability benchmarking

Giuseppe Munda

International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, 2006, vol. 6, issue 1/2, 65-78

Abstract: Sustainability management and planning is mainly a social decision process about the desired future of a given city, region or country. A possible reduction of the unavoidable complexity, present in this type of problems, consists in considering explicitly non-equivalent representations which arise in the interaction between the various observer subjects and the different systemic levels considered. The reduction of the number of non-equivalent representations leads us to the use of descriptors such as indicators and indexes. Then a question arises: how could such indicators be used for policy making? This paper presents a multicriteria framework, aimed at helping real-world policy processes, for the benchmarking of sustainability indicators.

Keywords: sustainability indicators; mathematical aggregation conventions; NAIADE method; social multicriteria evaluation; policy making; benchmarking; decision making; ustainability management; sustainability planning; sustainable development; environmental management. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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