Evaluating Sustainable Development by Composite Index: Evidence from French Departments

Bonnet, Jean; Coll-Martínez, Eva; Renou-Maissant, Patricia

doi:10.3390/su13020761

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“…The third axiom encourages research about trade-offs between economies of scale and assembly and distribution transportation costs: sustainability relates to how economic downturns intersect with geographically concentrated production specialization, respective hallmarks of business cycles and scale economies. The fourth axiom endorses research addressing almost any aspect of spatial autocorrelation in an urban setting, from arts and entertainment district formation, through pollution monitoring and abatement, to zoning impacts on land use: sustainability can flourish in the midst of spatial spillovers (see Bonnet et al, 2021). The fifth tenet alludes to location rent, local geographic monopolies, and spatial optimization achieved by the packing of market and other catchment areas: sustainability at least loosely links to geographic equilibria, an insufficiently investigated linkage.…”

Section: Internal Urban Spatial Economics Challengesmentioning

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Urban Economics: Geography and Spatial Dependence Matter to the Sustainability of Cities

Griffith

2021

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Section: Internal Urban Spatial Economics Challengesmentioning

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Urban Economics: Geography and Spatial Dependence Matter to the Sustainability of Cities

Griffith

2021

Front. Sustain. Cities

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“…In the environmental economics context, the concept of Economic Instruments (EI) dates from the beginning of the 20th century, proposed by the English economist Arthur C. Pigou (1877Pigou ( -1959 to collect taxes on generators of pollution [29]. The arguments for putting a price on pollution include encouraging polluters to reduce their pollution as much as is economically feasible and internalizing negative externalities in the pricing [3,30]. In addition, in European countries, the application of environmental fiscal instruments has been strengthened over several decades.…”

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“…Among these indirect mechanisms, Economic Instruments (EI) stimulate the productive agents to change their behavior in the use of natural resources and the products that generate pollution, noise, or environmental degradation [2]. Thus, citizen, government, and productive sectors are encouraged to share the objective of implementing strategies focused on ensuring environmental sustainability and thereby ensuring national security, sovereignty, and the conservation of the natural capital (goods and environmental services) [3].…”

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Fiscal Economic Instruments for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in Coastal Marine Areas of the Yucatan Peninsula

et al. 2021

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Fiscal economic instruments (FEI) are indirect regulation mechanisms that generate public revenue for the state through rights to use, charges, and concessions. In Mexico, some of these instruments can be used in the surveillance, administration, and preservation of the environment. In this paper, we analyze the changes in Federal and State growth rates of expenditure budgets in critical areas of the Yucatan Peninsula coast to describe their contribution to sustainable development during the last 12 years. We present an adaptation of the methodological guide of economic instruments for environmental management from CEPAL, with 2013 as the base year for the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) deflator and the use of the Protocol of Nagoya year as an international compromise signed by Mexico. The results obtained show that the expenditure budgets respond to economic, political, and short-term security attention without expectations for sustainability. However, alarming evidence of severe environmental deterioration in the coast is diminishing natural attraction, from tourism, for example, which is the main source of income in the region. The effective use of FEI by local governments may be useful to addressing environmental challenges from a decentralization process with better awareness of the importance of coastal areas for regional sustainability.

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“…SIs vary widely in several dimensions: focus on sustainable development or sustainability per se; the object of measurement and tracking, emissions (or extraction), ambient conditions, or impact on human and natural systems; ordinal, cardinal, or ratio measurement scale; and even presentation style where dashboards of various kinds compete with more prosaic tables of data. The data overload inherent in literally hundreds of SIs has motivated efforts of many kinds to systematize SIs: organize them around categories, and/or themes; employ cluster analysis, principal components analysis, etc., to let the data speak regarding groupings of indicators; and analyses to compare and rank sustainability performance of regions or localities in broad thematic groupings [17,18].…”

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Monitoring Sustainability and Targeting Interventions: Indicators, Planetary Boundaries, Benefits and Costs

Randall

2021

Sustainability

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This article shows how sustainability indicators (SIs) which have proliferated, and downscaled planetary boundaries (DPBs) which have recently emerged, can be used to target remedial interventions. I offer an integrative analysis drawing upon the existing literature, challenging, clarifying, and amending it in some ways, and extending it with new insights. The exposition is couched in the example of pollution control, but the analysis also applies to resource management with only modest amendments. Key conclusions are summarized. (i) In a default case where damage is indifferent to location within the problem shed and transactions costs are trivial, minimizing abatement costs requires that all units face the same marginal price of emissions and can be implemented by price setting at the jurisdictional level or cap and trade in pollution reduction credits. Larger geographic scale tends to reduce the average cost of abatement, an argument for coordination at the problem-shed level. Deviations from the default policy may be appropriate for addressing large point sources and local hot spots where damage is concentrated. (ii) A framework winnowing the proliferation of SIs includes the following principles: for quantitative target setting, SIs should address sustainability in its long-term context; SIs should be measured in ratio scale, whereas ordinal-scale SIs are common; and SIs should be selected for their usefulness in mapping the relationships among emissions, ambient concentrations, and damage. (iii) Target setting requires science-based empirical relationships and social values to assess trade-offs between abatement and its opportunity costs and suggest upper limits on tolerable damage. (iv) PBs that address global public goods can usefully be downscaled to set abatement targets. The PBs are science based and, in their original form, propose replacing social values with imperatives: violating the PB will doom the planet, which is unacceptable given any plausible value system. Given that PB = ∑DPB over all jurisdictions, global trading of credits would minimize costs of honoring the PB. Trade among a willing subset of jurisdictions could minimize the costs of meeting its aggregate DPB. (v) In contrast to most SI approaches, a cost–benefit (CB) approach can deal with substitutability and complementarity among sustainability objectives and evaluate multi-component policies. Net benefits are maximized when the marginal cost of abatement equals the marginal benefit for all units in the problem shed. This can be attained by price setting at the jurisdictional level or trade in credits. (vi) A major advantage of the CB approach is its well-defined relationship to weak sustainability. However, its value measures over-weight the preferences of the well-off. Equity considerations suggest relief from strict CB criteria in the case of essentials such as human health and nutrition, and subsidization by rich countries of sustainability projects in low-income countries.

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Evaluating Sustainable Development by Composite Index: Evidence from French Departments

Cited by 32 publications

References 49 publications

Urban Economics: Geography and Spatial Dependence Matter to the Sustainability of Cities

Urban Economics: Geography and Spatial Dependence Matter to the Sustainability of Cities

Fiscal Economic Instruments for the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources in Coastal Marine Areas of the Yucatan Peninsula

Monitoring Sustainability and Targeting Interventions: Indicators, Planetary Boundaries, Benefits and Costs

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