A proposal to measure the circular economy implementation and sustainable development goals achievement using objectively weighted indices

IF 6.5 3区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY
José-Luis Alfaro Navarro, María-Encarnación Andrés Martínez
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ABSTRACTGovernments, companies and citizens around the world consider necessary to adopt a new circular economy (CE) model that allows solving the planet’s environmental challenges and guaranteeing sustainable economic growth. Europe advocates this philosophy, but there is no widely accepted index to measure CE implementation at a macro level. This paper proposes a new index based on principal component analysis for European Union countries that use all information available without losing any information by the dimensionality reduction and consider objective weights based on the percentage of variance that each one retains. Moreover, we develop a disaggregated analysis considering the CE dimensions set out in the ‘CE monitoring framework’, allowing a more comprehensive analysis than when using a single indicator of CE implementation. This method is also used to build an index of the degree of achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) to see how they relate to the CE; the relationships between CE dimensions; and between SDGs. The results by geographical areas reveal a higher level of CE implementation in western European and EU-15 countries, with Luxembourg, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium alternately holding the top positions depending on the CE dimension considered. Therefore, the new European countries and the countries in the east must encourage measures to improve the implementation of the economy. In addition, there is a positive, strong and significant relationship with SDGs 8, 9 and 11, with both the overall CE implementation index and the disaggregated indices, and a negative one with 7 and 15.KEYWORDS: Circular economysustainable development goalssynthetic indicatorprincipal component analysisEuropean Union Highlights We propose new synthetic indices of the CE implementation and achievement of the SDGs.This proposal accounts for all existing information, leaving nothing out, however, irrelevant it may seem, and uses objective weights.The results show that Luxembourg, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium hold the top positions.Western European countries and those that make up the EU-15 are the ones that present the highest levels of CE implementation.There is a clear relationship between the SDGs 8, 9 and 11 and CE implementation.AcknowledgmentsSpecial thanks to the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions regarding this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Department of Applied Economics I, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain [grant numbers 00421I126].
提出了用客观加权指标衡量循环经济实施和可持续发展目标实现情况的建议
摘要世界各国政府、企业和公民都认为有必要采用一种新的循环经济(CE)模式,以解决地球的环境挑战并保证可持续的经济增长。欧洲倡导这一理念,但没有一个被广泛接受的指标来衡量宏观层面的CE实施情况。本文提出了一种新的基于主成分分析的欧盟国家指数,该指数利用所有可用信息而不因降维而丢失任何信息,并根据每个国家保留的方差百分比考虑客观权重。此外,我们发展了一个分解的分析,考虑到“行政长官监测框架”中规定的行政长官维度,比使用单一的行政长官执行指标进行更全面的分析。该方法还用于建立可持续发展目标(sdg)实现程度指数,以了解它们与行政长官的关系;CE维度之间的关系;在可持续发展目标之间。按地理区域划分的结果显示,西欧和欧盟15国的CE实施水平较高,根据所考虑的CE维度,卢森堡、奥地利、丹麦、荷兰和比利时轮流位居榜首。因此,新欧洲国家和东方国家必须采取鼓励措施,改善经济的实施。此外,与可持续发展目标8、9和11的总体CE执行指数和分类指数均存在正相关、强相关和显著相关,与可持续发展目标7和15呈负相关。关键词:循环经济;可持续发展目标;综合指标;这个建议考虑了所有现有的信息,没有遗漏任何看起来不相关的信息,并且使用了客观的权重。结果显示,卢森堡、奥地利、丹麦、荷兰和比利时位居前列。西欧国家和组成欧盟15国的国家是执行CE水平最高的国家。可持续发展目标8、9和11与执行行政长官之间存在明确的关系。特别感谢编辑和匿名审稿人对本文的建议。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。本研究由西班牙卡斯蒂利亚-拉曼查大学应用经济I系资助[资助号00421I126]。
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CiteScore
11.10
自引率
3.60%
发文量
58
审稿时长
18-36 weeks
期刊介绍: The International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology is now over fifteen years old and has proved to be an exciting forum for understanding and advancing our knowledge and implementation of sustainable development. Sustainable development is now of primary importance as the key to future use and management of finite world resources. It recognises the need for development opportunities while maintaining a balance between these and the environment. As stated by the UN Bruntland Commission in 1987, sustainable development should "meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
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