Author(s): Andrzej Krasnodębski, Łukasz Paluch
Title: Multidimensional Comparative Analysis of the Level of Sustainable Development of the European Union Member States Using Taxonomic Methods
Source: International Scientific Days 2018 :: Towards Productive, Sustainable and Resilient Global Agriculture and Food Systems :: Proceedings
ISBN: 978-80-7598-180-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15414/isd2018.s8.09
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer ČR, Prague
PY, pages: 2018, 1722-1737
Published on-line: 2018-11-09
Language: eng
Abstract: The aim of the paper is an identification and assessment of the level of sustainable
development of the European Union members states using taxonomic methods. The
starting point for conducting the multidimensional comparative analysis was adopting
three sets of diagnostic variables characterizing the level of sustainable development
of the analyzed European Union members states in terms of their fundamental
dimensions, i.e. social, economic and environmental. The main tool used for creating
the ranking was the method of standardized sum of PERKAL indicator, which
made possible conducting a classification procedure based on analysis and ordering
objects described by means of many diagnostic variables. The paper used numerical
data published by EUROSTAT in 2016. Performing the multidimensional comparative
analysis for the regions in Poland and Slovakia allowed to order them according
to the value of determined synthetic measure and classification to three groups revealing
different levels of sustainable development. The results of conducted analysis
indicate considerable differences of the studied objects both due to their economic,
social and environment dimensions, and in the context of their sustainability level.
Keywords: sustainable development, taxonomic methods, multidimensional comparative
analysis, ranking, the European Union member states
JEL Classification: C43, Q51, Q56, R11, R58
Rights:Open Access :: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 International Licence
Toto dielo je publikované pod/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.
Plný text/Fulltext