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The need for aggregated sustainability information has become a concrete goal of nations committed to contributing to sustainable development and to the establishment of an integrated economic, environmental and social information system for the sustainability assessments.
The paper presents a method for aggregating a set of indicators into the Index of balanced sustainable development (I BSD). The method constructs the Index from economic, environmental and social sub-indices, equally weighted together to describe total impact on sustainable development of nations. Thus, large number of indicators are aggregated in order to compress information into the index and provide problem-oriented information for decision-making.
On the basis of the methodology, index of balanced sustainable development for 24 countries (EU and candidate countries) was calculated for 1990, 1995 and 1998.
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Seljak, J., Krajnc, D., Glavič, P. (2004). Measuring Sustainability — Index of Balanced Sustainable Development. In: Sikdar, S.K., Glavič, P., Jain, R. (eds) Technological Choices for Sustainability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10270-1_21
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