The Ex-Ante Evaluation of Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

Lorenza Campagnolo, Carlo Carraro (), Fabio Eboli, Luca Farnia (), Ramiro Parrado () and Roberta Pierfederici
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Fabio Eboli: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Luca Farnia: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Roberta Pierfederici: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2018, vol. 136, issue 1, No 5, 73-116

Abstract: Abstract This paper describes the methodology and main results from an overall assessment on future achievement of sustainable development goals. The proposed approach consists of a model-based, looking forward composite sustainable development index—FEEM sustainability index—projected to the future. It represents a first experiment to reproduce the future dynamics of sustainable development indicators over time and worldwide and to assess future sustainability under different scenarios. The assessment presented here is relevant under different viewpoints. First, it has a very broad nature in terms of both geographical coverage and meaningfulness: it considers the multi-dimensional structure of sustainable development by combining relevant indicators belonging to economic, social and environmental pillars for the whole world. Second, the modelling framework to compute future trends of indicators relies upon a recursive-dynamic computable general equilibrium model. This is an ideal tool to look simultaneously at the development of many indicators, their potential interactions and trade-offs, and more in general to the consequences of economic development and/or policies aiming to increase performance in one or more indicators; it allows measuring the overall sustainability under alternative scenarios, across countries and over time. Finally, regarding the construction of the composite indicator, the application of fuzzy measures and Choquet integral increases substantially the model capability allowing taking into account the interactions that exist among the three main pillars of sustainability and the considered indicators.

Keywords: Computable general equilibrium model; Sustainable development goals; Composite index; Fuzzy measures; Choquet integral (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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