Selection criteria for sustainable development indicators

Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan and Sudhakara Reddy

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai Working Papers from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India

Abstract: The selection of optimum number of indicators is the key to any Sustainable Development Indicator (SDI) research. Indicators, too less in number may be inadequate to convey the message and; too many may dilute the purpose. To arrive at a limited number of indicators from a larger set of potential ones, a set of criteria is applied. In the past SDI-initiatives, emphasis was not laid on structuring criteria; these were invariably considered in a linear way. This paper proposes a framework to organize criteria in a tree fashion at successive levels. For each level, the weights of a criterion relative to others are determined by following Analytical Hierarchy Process where experts' opinions are considered. For aggregation of scores, `displaced ideal' method is proposed over linear additive model.

Keywords: What-How-Whom (WHW) framework; Value tree; Analytical Hierarchy Process; Displaced ideal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 Q01 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2010-08
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