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  • Sustainability performance evaluation in industry by composite sustainability index
    Zhou, Li ...
    The growing importance of sustainable development as a policy objective has initiated a debate about those suitable frameworks and tools useful for policymakers when making a sustainable decision. ... Composite indicators (CIs) aggregate multidimensional issues into one index, thus providing comprehensiveinformation. However, it is frequently argued that CIs are too subjective, as their results undesirably depend on the normalization method, aspecific weighting scheme, and the aggregation method of sub-indicators. Thisarticle applies different combinations of normalization, weighting, and aggregation methods for the assessment of an industrial case study, with the aim of determining the best scheme for constructing CIs. The applied methodology gradually aggregates sustainable development indicators into sustainability sub-indices and, finally, to a composite sustainability index. The normalization methods included in this analysis are: minimum-maximum, distance to a reference, and the percentages of annual differences over consecutive years. Equal weightings, the ćbenefit of the doubtć approach, and budget allocation process were used for determining the weights of individual indicators and sustainability sub-indices. The linear, geometric, and non-compensatory multi-criteria approaches (NCMCs) were used as aggregation methods. The NCMC is modified to fit the two-level aggregation, then to sub-indices, and finally to a composite sustainable index. Also, a penalty criterion is introduced into the evaluation process with the aim of motivatingthe company to move towards sustainable development. The results areanalyzed by variance-based sensitivity analysis. According to the results the recommended scheme for CIsć construction is: distance to a reference-benefit of the doubt-linear aggregation.
    Vir: Clean technologies and environmental policy. - ISSN 1618-954X (Vol. 14, iss. 5, Oct. 2012, str. 789-803)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2012
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 16055318
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