An exercise in composite indicators construction: Assessing the sustainability of Italian regions

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Matteo Floridi, SSimone Falorni and Tommaso Luzzati (tluzzati@ec.unipi.it)

Ecological Economics, 2011, vol. 70, issue 8, pages 1440-1447

Abstract: This paper presents a piece of research aimed at evaluating the relative sustainability of the Italian Regions. After selecting a core set of indicators, for which we referred to the EU Sustainable Development Strategy, we built a composite index and checked for its robustness. As a result we got 'many numbers', that is, a range of possible rankings for Italian Regions.

Keywords: Composite; indicators; Rankings; Benchmarking; Sustainability; Sensitivity; robustness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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