In a scenario of increasing globalization, sustainable development has emerged as an
attractive and strategic issue for both countries and individual organizations and their supply …

The evaluation of sustainable development–and, in particular, rural development–through
composite indices requires taking into account a plurality of indicators, which are related to …

Measuring sustainability is a multi-attribute issue consisting of numerous variables that tend
to be interrelated. The holistic perspective and the determination of said relationships …

Several assessments of vulnerability and resilience have been attempted at a country level
through composite indices but they are barely in accord with a holistic view of sustainable …

Many methods for creating surrogate swing weights based only on the rank order of the
attributes are proposed to avoid the cost and effort of eliciting weights in multiattribute …

Urban sustainability has been revealed as one of the key elements in achieving global
sustainability. There is a wide range of indicators in this field; however, sustainability …

Abstract The FEEM Sustainability Index (FEEM SI) proposes an integrated methodological
approach to quantitatively assess sustainability performance across countries and over time …

This article suggests a generic method to compute a composite index of vulnerability and
resilience from a sustainable development perspective: the Net Vulnerability-Resilience …

This paper proposes a new tool to assess sustainability and make the concept of
sustainable development operational. It considers its multi-dimensional structure combining …

Australian communities face increasing losses and disruption from natural disasters.
Disaster resilience is a protective characteristic that acts to reduce the effects of, and losses …