Rural sustainability assessment using a combination of multi-criteria decision making and factor analysis

Ali Asghar Aliloo () and Sharhryar Dashti ()
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Ali Asghar Aliloo: University of Maragheh
Sharhryar Dashti: University of Maragheh

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2021, vol. 23, issue 4, No 74, 6323-6336

Abstract: Abstract The rural sustainability is one of the most important issues in rain-fed agricultural areas; however, because of multiple obvious and latent driving factors, a few models have been suggested covering the fluctuation of sustainability in these sensitive areas. Therefore, this study takes advantage of a combination of multivariate and multi-criteria decision making to analyze the association of rural resources with sustainability in northwest of Iran. The entire demographical, agricultural and natural standard data of 143 villages (21 variables) were weighted and ranked by Shannon–Winner index and simple additive weighting (SAW) method, respectively. The synthesized dataset was grouped into two categories of highly sustainable (ZSAW > 0) and low sustainable (ZSAW

Keywords: Agricultural development; Literacy; Shannon–Wiener index; Simple additive weighting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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