Abstract
<p>One of the purposes of sustainable development assessment is to identify the most importance criteria and sub-criteria of sustainable development that have the most significant contribution to the local community. To date, few studies have inquired into qualitative methods to assess these criteria and sub-criteria. In response to this gap in the literature, we propose an application of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method to prioritize thirteen sub-criteria of sustainable development among underprivileged community of Setiu Wetlands Terengganu. Consistency ratio and weighted geometric mean are the two important computation steps of the AHP prior to proposing global weights of sub-criteria. The computational results indicate that ‘Education’ is the most important sub-criteria with 15.4 % of global weight. At the other extreme ‘global economic partnership’ is the least important sub-criteria for this group of community. The outcome of the proposed method is a weight of sustainability for all sub-criteria which offers a guide to government in identifying the appropriate action for uplifting the community quality of life.</p>
Highlights
Sustainable development has emerged in 1987 when the World Commission of Environment and Development released its definition through The Bruntdland Report
In response to this gap in the literature, we propose an application of the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method to prioritize thirteen sub-criteria of sustainable development among underprivileged community of Setiu Wetlands Terengganu
Various approaches are available for sustainable development assessment ranging from typical surveys to intelligent based methods
Summary
Sustainable development has emerged in 1987 when the World Commission of Environment and Development released its definition through The Bruntdland Report. In the context of Malaysia, social development mainly focuses on several sub-criteria which could satisfy the varied needs of the community, for example health, governance and education as the basic requirements. The inclusion of criteria and sub-criteria in defining sustainable development are consistent with the definition of the UK government where the ultimate aim of sustainable development is providing people with a better quality of life (Choi & Ahn, 2013). These interconnected criteria of sustainable development have attracted many researchers to investigate its concepts at regional or country levels using various methods and approaches
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