Abstract
From the perspective of sustainable development and based on literature review, this paper introduces modified Delphi and Decision Making and Trial Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) to explore the critical factors of sustainable development in rural areas and their correlation. Through literature review and modified Delphi analysis, nine key factors of rural sustainable development are first identified, namely industrial activation, working environment, living conditions, infrastructure, public involvement, rural culture, government-related departments, educational resources, and health and welfare. DEMATEL is then adopted to determine the classification of the aforementioned factors, in which four (government-related departments, public involvement, infrastructure, and educational resources) are classified in the cause group and five (health and welfare, living conditions, rural culture, working environment, and industrial activation) are classified in the effect group. According to the centrality and relation of these factors, the causal network diagram is finally drawn before making practical suggestions based on the overall results, with a view to providing a reference for decision-makers in their follow-up rural sustainable development planning.
Highlights
In their quest for sustained economic and technological growth and breakthroughs, countries are facing challenges such as the depletion of natural resources, destruction of the natural environment, and poverty resulting from the unequal distribution of wealth [1,2]
This study aims to propose a method of Hybrid Multiple Criteria Decision-making (HMCDM) to explore and analyze the main factors of rural sustainable development (SD) and their causal correlation in Taiwan
After clarifying the content and purpose of this study and consulting 12 experts and scholars, the modified Delphi expert questionnaire was designed by Likert 7 Scale according to 10 rural SD factors and distributed for the first round
Summary
In their quest for sustained economic and technological growth and breakthroughs, countries are facing challenges such as the depletion of natural resources, destruction of the natural environment, and poverty resulting from the unequal distribution of wealth [1,2]. The World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) was founded in 1983 and concisely defined SD at the Brundtland Commission in 1987 as “the development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. It is the advocacy of standards of consumption within the ecologically possible range and of all possible ranges of consumption and standards to which all people can reasonably aspire. The concept and connotation of SD have been introduced into multiple research fields as well as being a hot topic in itself [6,7,8,9]
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