Um seine Klimaziele zu erreichen, muss Deutschland die Energieversorgung zügig auf erneuerbare Energien umstellen. Viele Weichenstellungen hierfür werden auf Ebene der Bundespolitik getroffen. Daneben gibt es auch für die Bundesländer vielfältige Möglichkeiten, sich für den Ausbau...

Im Rahmen der Energiewende soll die Energieversorgung überwiegend auf erneuerbare Energien umgestellt werden. Der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien wird maßgeblich von der Bundespolitik bestimmt. Daneben spielen aber auch die Bundesländer eine wichtige Rolle und können wesentlich zum Gelingen der...

The study of poverty and its quantification is a critical yet unresolved problem in social science. This work seeks to use a new composite indicator to assess poverty as a multidimensional concept. However, subjective decisions, such as various weighting systems on the indicator's creation, may...

The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different weighting schemes on the indicator's construction could...

Composite indicators are increasingly important in country comparisons and in policy making. At the same time, the robustness of the results obtained and in particular of the rankings and the conclusions obtained from the analysis it is usually accepted with doubts. In this sense our proposal is...

Um seine Klimaziele zu erreichen, muss Deutschland die Energieversorgung zügig auf erneuerbare Energien umstellen. Viele Weichenstellungen hierfür werden auf Ebene der Bundespolitik getroffen. Daneben gibt es auch für die Bundesländer vielfältige Möglichkeiten, sich für den Ausbau...

This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components, thus making it a complex concept to which multi...

Innovation is currently seen as a cornerstone not only for economic development but also as an intrinsic human activity that could help to face the great challenges of human kind. Given the importance of innovation in the new European 2020 Strategy, measuring progress but also monitoring what...

Composite indicators are very popular, despite being affected by several problems that often result in lack of 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...

Germany’s energy transition envisages a shift toward energy being supplied primarily from renewable sources. The expansion of renewables is largely determined by central government policy but the German Länder also play a major role and could consequently make a significant contribution...