Abstract
Sustainability is a holistic and complex multi-dimensional concept comprising economic, social and environmental issues. The EU Sustainable Development Goals’ indicator set, developed by European Commission, is implemented online in Eurostat’s database and constitutes the basis for assessing the level of sustainability assessment in different areas. The integration of the sustainability indicators was carried out in many studies by using the multi-criteria techniques. This work proposes a new methodological framework based on extended TOPSIS procedure, which takes into account EU targets and/or national targets in building positive ideal solution and negative ideal solution. This algorithm allows compensatory and non-compensatory approach in integrated sustainability assessment from the target point of view. This framework has been applied to measure sustainable development in the area of education in 28 EU countries in 2015. The results of this research also illustrate the complexity of measuring sustainable development, where multiple sustainability criteria and targets are considered.
Highlights
Sustainable development can be defined as improving the quality of life without affecting the environment
Using SDG 4 indicator data, we created some composite indexes of sustainability related to education, based on extended TOPSIS procedure
The first goal of this study is to propose a new methodological framework based on extended TOPSIS, which integrates assessment of sustainability goals taking into consideration target levels
Summary
Sustainable development can be defined as improving the quality of life without affecting the environment. Sustainability is a holistic and complex multi-dimensional concept comprising economic, social and environmental issues An extensive overview of sustainability performance evaluation, including literature review and future directions, was provided by Büyüközkan and Karabulut (2018). They suggested that “sustainability performance evaluation models shall be more balanced, suitable criteria and their interrelations shall be well defined and subjectivity of qualitative criteria inherent to sustainability indicators shall be considered”
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