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Multicriteria analysis for grouping and ranking European Union rural areas based on social sustainability indicators

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  • Parthena Chatzinikolaou
  • Thomas Bournaris
  • Basil Manos

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Social sustainability is 'one of the three legs of the sustainability stool' (the other two are environmental and economic). There is limited literature that focuses on social sustainability to the extent that a comprehensive study of this concept is still missing. As a result, there have been very few attempts to define social sustainability as an independent dimension of sustainable development. Social sustainability is related to social capital, social inclusion, social exclusion and social cohesion in rural economies, terms that are measured by relevant social sustainability indicators. This paper aims to measure these indicators and to compare them. In order to measure these indicators, a household survey carried out in the context of the research project CAP-IRE. This survey included 11 case study areas in nine case study areas of the European Union. From the results of this survey, we measured a set of economic and social sustainability indicators. We have selected the main social sustainability indicators on which we based to proceed to the grouping and ranking of the 11 European rural areas.

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  • Parthena Chatzinikolaou & Thomas Bournaris & Basil Manos, 2013. "Multicriteria analysis for grouping and ranking European Union rural areas based on social sustainability indicators," International Journal of Sustainable Development, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 16(3/4), pages 335-351.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijsusd:v:16:y:2013:i:3/4:p:335-351
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    1. Zehua Wang & Fachao Liang & Sheng-Hau Lin, 2023. "Can socially sustainable development be achieved through homestead withdrawal? A hybrid multiple-attributes decision analysis," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-18, December.
    2. Christina Moulogianni, 2022. "Comparison of Selected Mathematical Programming Models Used for Sustainable Land and Farm Management," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-18, August.
    3. Parthena Chatzinikolaou & Davide Viaggi & Meri Raggi, 2018. "Using the Ecosystem Services Framework for Policy Impact Analysis: An Application to the Assessment of the Common Agricultural Policy 2014–2020 in the Province of Ferrara (Italy)," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(3), pages 1-20, March.

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