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measures of prosperity? A starting point may be to connect well-being research agenda with the sustainability one. However … sustainability and well-being. This article analyses the theoretical foundations and the empirical validity of some multidimensional …
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robustness of the rankings involved. The aim of this paper is to show that composite indicators can be safely used, provided that … rankings are built via uncertainty analysis rather than using a single composite. For this purpose, the approach we follow … then derives the rankings from the frequency distribution of the rankings of each “competitor” according to each composite …
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from a failure to address sustainability, which is not only about Naturre, but also about the society and the economy. This … sustainability of the Italian Regions. Given a core set of indicators, selected by referring to the EU Sustainable Development … Strategy, we built many composite indexes involving several rankings which allowed us to draw up a meta-ranking, that is a …
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from a failure to address sustainability, which is not only about Naturre, but also about the society and the economy. This … sustainability of the Italian Regions. Given a core set of indicators, selected by referring to the EU Sustainable Development … Strategy, we built many composite indexes involving several rankings which allowed us to draw up a meta-ranking, that is a …
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This paper presents a piece of research aimed at evaluating the relative sustainability of the Italian Regions. After …
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The last decades have seen a flourishing of new indicators to measure economic progress, but none of them has succeded in replacing GDP. Why? The article reviews what are arguably the three most successful alternatives to GDP (the Human Development Index, the Genuine Progress Indica-tor, and the...
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get”, we currently get “economic growth” that works against sustainability. This review provides a reflection on advance …
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this report is devoted to the issue of measuring sustainability. One of the sustainability indexes it considers is the … measuring sustainability stricto sensu, avoiding a frequent confusion between the measurement of sustainability and the … global sustainability: physical and human capital accumulation, as well as changes in quantities or quality of environmental …
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The Stern Review (2006) on the economics of climate change presented a cost estimate of perhaps even 20% of national income and subsequently was criticized by Weitzman and Nordhaus and others in a discussion that centered on the use of the calculus of variations and the choice of the proper rate...
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For many years, the World Bank has reported estimates of the degree of sustainability of the world’s economies using a … measure of adjusted net savings. We construct long-run sustainability indicators for Germany over the period 1850-2000 to test … find that German sustainability indicators are positive for the most part, although they are negative during and after the …
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