Relationships of the dimensions of sustainability as measured by the sustainable society index framework

Kaivo‐oja, Jari; Panula‐Ontto, Juha; Vehmas, Jarmo; Luukkanen, Jyrki

doi:10.1080/13504509.2013.860056

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“…The synergy and trade-off analysis tool has been developed to analyse the synergy between different trends; it enables comparisons of intensities between different combinations and provides more explorative results than strictly statistical results [107,108]. The concepts of synergy and win-win strategies have been widely discussed; for example, in the fields of economic growth, well-being and social policy [107] and also in the long-term formulations of European policies [109].…”

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“…Synergy analysis is a new methodological tool for futures research, it is a new assessment tool, which has been developed for the analysis of synergies and trade-offs between selected development trends [108]. This suggests new quantitative measures for the concepts of synergy, trade-off and delinking.…”

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“…This kind of analysis does not imply that synergy is necessarily good and trade-off is bad, or vice versa. Such interpretation is always case specific; to interpret the results in more depth, we need to determine how we would like the trends to evolve [107,108]. Thus there is a need for desirability analyses in this context.…”

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“…The synergy analysis tool has been developed to analyse the synergy between two different trends, but it can be used to analyse simultaneously the synergy between three trends representing the three different dimensions of sustainable development [107,108]. In this study, this methodology is used to analyse synergies between trends relevant for welfare in European countries.…”

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Futures of European welfare models and policies: seeking actual research questions, and new problem-solving arsenal for European welfare states

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The key research question is to discuss and elaborate the potential value added that futures studies could provide for European citizens and political, social and economic institutions. In the article the problems of European welfare policy issues are theoretically described and analysed. In the article broader framework to understand key policy issues of European welfare policy challenges are defined. A general analysis and generic model for European welfare policy is presented. The Authors also present futures oriented methodological approach to analyse and solve new challenges of European welfare policy problems. Key contributions of this article are: (1) Analysis of theoretical basis for construction of welfare models in future environments, (2) the relationship between research questions and topics in welfare policy planning and management, (3) the analysis of the relationship between futures oriented research questions, methodological stages and outcomes in the field of European welfare policy and (4) the concrete methodological proposal how futures research methodology can help to solve future puzzles of European welfare policy.

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“…The major platform model of ASA was presented in the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems and Sustainable Development and in the journal article of Population and Environment [15,16]. Additionally, rebound analysis [17], de-linking and re-linking analyses [18], synergy and trade-off analysis methodology packages [19,20], and de-growth and sustainable growth analysis [21] have been included in the ASA framework. Thus, the Sustainability Window methodology can be seen as a new useful module of a broader ASA analysis framework.…”

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Dynamic Sustainability. Sustainability Window Analysis of Chinese Poverty-Environment Nexus Development

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Sustainability Window is a new analysis tool for assessing the sustainability of development simultaneously in all of its three dimensions (environmental, economic, and social). The analysis method provides information of the maximum and minimum economic development that is required to maintain the direction of social and environmental development towards more sustainable targets. With the Sustainability Window method it is possible to easily analyze the sustainability using different indicators and different time periods making comparative analyses easy. The new method makes it also possible to analyze the dynamics of the sustainability and the changes over time in the width of the window. This provides a new perspective for analyzing the trends of sustainability and the impacts of underlying sustainability policies. As an illustration of the method, we have carried out an analysis of Chinese development using CO2 and SO2 emissions as indicators of the environmental dimension, number of non-poor people as an indicator of the social dimension and GDP as an indicator of the economic dimension.

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Expert Panel Weighting and Aggregation of the Sustainable Society Index (SSI) 2010 – a Decision Analysis Approach

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A sustainable society index (SSI) has been designed to measure the sustainability of different countries in terms of economic, environmental and human well-being dimensions. These areas were subdivided into eight categories and 24 indicators. The paper shows that the SSI could be considered as a decision-making problem with multiple objectives. We propose a decision-analysis approach for estimation of the weights of indicators, categories and dimensions of well-being, with the target being a construction of overall scores for countries. A questionnaire was sent to experts from several countries, and the weights were estimated from their individual answers. The SSI 2010 results for different countries were recalculated through utilization of the estimated weights. There were some differences in the rankings compared with the earlier results with equal weights. Potential biases of the SSI approach used are critically evaluated, and opportunities to develop the SSI described.

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Relationships of the dimensions of sustainability as measured by the sustainable society index framework

Cited by 69 publications

References 10 publications

Futures of European welfare models and policies: seeking actual research questions, and new problem-solving arsenal for European welfare states

Futures of European welfare models and policies: seeking actual research questions, and new problem-solving arsenal for European welfare states

Dynamic Sustainability. Sustainability Window Analysis of Chinese Poverty-Environment Nexus Development

Expert Panel Weighting and Aggregation of the Sustainable Society Index (SSI) 2010 – a Decision Analysis Approach

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