Top-down and Europe-wide versus bottom-up and intra-regional identification of key issues for sustainability impact assessment

Dilly, Oliver; Hüttl, Reinhard F.

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2009.09.002

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“…Sustainable societies need to find balanced relationships within the economic, social, and environmental dimensions, where employment and the labour markets have an important role in these interrelationships (Dilly and Hüttl 2009), as well as the asymmetric income distribution (Shaker and Zubalsky 2015). Unemployment is an unavoidable variable when the intention is to consider social dimensions in any study, considering not only its implications on the income of populations, but also on family organization (Fernandez et al 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Social Justice: Disparities in Average Earnings across Portuguese Municipalities

Martinho

2019

Social Sciences

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An ever-ongoing discussion these days involves the disparities in monthly earnings across different genders, geographical locations, levels of education, economic sectors, and skills and careers, with various economic and social consequences. In fact, in a framework such as that in which we live in nowadays (with pertinent concerns about economic and social convergences across several indicators), investigating these disparities would be interesting in order to complement the basis that is considered for the design of social policies. There are few studies considering the approaches here developed for this topic. The objective of this study is to analyse the disparities in the average monthly earnings received by employees across Portuguese mainland municipalities over the period 2004–2012, considering as additional analysis criteria geographical location, gender, levels of qualification, levels of education, economic sectors, professional activities, and further qualifications. For this both a cluster and factor analysis were considered to better identify municipalities with similar characteristics and correlations among variables. The results show that the disparities in the monthly average earnings between the Portuguese municipalities are related to three indexes associated with gender, qualifications, and chosen professions. The findings presented are specific to the Portuguese framework; however, the approaches developed in this study may be applied in other contexts to explore the dynamics related with the topic of social justice.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Social Justice: Disparities in Average Earnings across Portuguese Municipalities

Martinho

2019

Social Sciences

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“…For some land uses which are prohibited for agricultural use such as water bodies and settlements, a score of 0 was given as a constraint. The accessibility valuation was set by giving out higher scores to lands that were closer to the road; this was for reasons of ease of access, including better access to agricultural inputs and production transport [29]. The distance attributed was adapted according to the field conditions.…”

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Assessing the Suitability and Availability of Land for Agriculture in Tuban Regency, East Java, Indonesia

Widiatmaka

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Setiawan³

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Applied and Environmental Soil Science

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Indonesian food production depends highly on Java Island, which holds the most fertile soils in the country but had limited area. The objective of the research was to analyse the availability of suitable land for agriculture in Tuban Regency, an agricultural regency in Java Island. Land suitability was evaluated with spatial multicriteria analysis, integrating soil order, land capability, elevation, slope, slope direction, land use/land cover, accessibility, and climate. Land availability was analysed, integrating the forest area status designation and the spatial pattern of regional official land use plan. The results indicated that suitable land for agriculture corresponds to 91% of the total study area, confirming the high soil fertility. Analysis of land availability then indicated that 18% of the area was both suitable and available for agriculture. Considering the actual land utilization, the future development of agriculture in the region has less than 7% of the land area left for agricultural expansion. The overall results showed the importance of looking for land allocated for agriculture outside Java Island to anticipate the need for food of a country with a high population growth rate and also developing planning for food production.

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“…Among these, Sustainability Impact Assessments (SIA) is a major approach fostered by the European Union for assessing economic, social and environmental impacts of policy or rules-measures changes, as well as to assist decision-makers in sustainability contexts (Kirkpatrick and Lee 2002;George and Kirkpatrick 2003;Ness et al 2007). SIA experience has been gained in the past decade (Pope et al 2004;Nilsson et al 2008;Weaver and Jordan 2008;Hertin et al 2009) particularly as regards the use of indicators in SIA (Dilly and Hüttl 2009;Paracchini et al 2011).…”

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Indicator development in sustainability impact assessment: balancing theory and practice

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In this article, the development and operationalisation of forestry-wood chain indicators within the frame of sustainability impact assessment are discussed. The analytical framework follows a distinction between indicator definition and selection in a first phase, and a second operational phase of indicator application in terms of interconnecting material flows, calculation of chain performance and utilisation within evaluation components. A clear boundary drawing effort in terms of the development of indicator definitions, related subclasses, and measurement units as well as the creation of conversion factors between indicator values and individual chain stages supports this. Economic, social and environmental indicators have to respond to data collection needs on individual process levels (that correspond to sub-divisions of the forestry-wood chain). For the usage of indicators within evaluation tools, a functional hierarchy has to be provided that supports clear preference elicitation as well as information on related externalities. In total, this paper aims at demonstrating an enhanced spectrum in the use of sustainability indicators, and the challenges that arise from a developing and applying multi-functional indicators in sustainability impact assessment.

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Top-down and Europe-wide versus bottom-up and intra-regional identification of key issues for sustainability impact assessment

Cited by 15 publications

References 22 publications

Social Justice: Disparities in Average Earnings across Portuguese Municipalities

Social Justice: Disparities in Average Earnings across Portuguese Municipalities

Assessing the Suitability and Availability of Land for Agriculture in Tuban Regency, East Java, Indonesia

Indicator development in sustainability impact assessment: balancing theory and practice

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