Evaluation and Management of Urban Liveability: A Goal Programming Based Composite Indicator

Valcárcel-Aguiar, Beatriz; Fernández, Pilar Murias

doi:10.1007/s11205-018-1861-z

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“…They have been used to develop CIs applied to diverse sectors of services, activities, or processes [2][3][4]. In particular, methodologies based on goal programming (GP) are of great interest for the construction of CIs and they have been successfully applied to diverse fields as tourism [5,6], manufacturing [7], human sustainable development [8][9][10], or environmental sustainability [11,12]. The main advantages of using GP to develop CIs are: it is not necessary to normalize the initial set of PIs; the CI uses the complete information included in the initial set of PIs; and it does not require a large number of units in comparison with the number of initial indicators.…”

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A Two-Phase Method to Assess the Sustainability of Water Companies

2019

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Composite indicators are becoming more relevant for evaluating the performance of water companies from a holistic perspective. Some of them are related with economic aspects, and others focus on social and environmental features. Consequently, a multidimensional evaluation is necessary for handling the great amount of information provided by multiple single indicators of a different nature. This paper presents a two-phase approach to evaluate the sustainability of water companies. First, a partial composite indicator for each dimension (social, environmental, economic) is obtained using multi-criteria decision making (MCDM). Then, a global indicator is obtained, in terms of the values reached in the previous stage for every partial indicator, by means an optimization problem rooted in data envelopment analysis (DEA). Our proposal offers the possibility of analyzing the performance of each water company under each dimension that characterizes the concept of sustainability, as well as a joint assessment including all the dimensions, facilitating the decision-making process. We apply it to evaluate the sustainability of 163 Portuguese water companies. The results show the strengths and weaknesses of each unit and serve as a guideline to decision-makers on the aspects for improving the performance of water utilities.

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A Two-Phase Method to Assess the Sustainability of Water Companies

2019

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“…Following earlier research conducted by Díaz-Balteiro and Romero [50], the goal concept appears for the first time in the construction of composite indicators in an article by Blancas et al [23], which attempted to estimate the sustainability of tourist destinations. This same technique was later applied to other research projects [51][52][53][54][55][56][57].…”

Section: The Goal Programming Based Approach To Composite Indicator Constructionmentioning

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Sustainable Urban Liveability: A Practical Proposal Based on a Composite Indicator

2018

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This article presents a proposal for a composite index to assess the degree of sustainable urban liveability. It makes two key contributions to this field of study. The first is a proposal for the concept of sustainable urban liveability that includes the need to meet a minimum number of environmental conditions in terms of resource consumption and the deterioration of the environment. The second contribution is the use of a non-compensatory aggregation technique in order to construct the composite index. This kind of aggregation technique does not allow trade-offs between partial indicators. In the particular context of sustainable urban liveability, it prevents poor performance by the natural environment indicators from being compensated by positive results in the remaining indicators. The proposed composite index for sustainable urban liveability is applied to the case of 58 Spanish cities. The results reveal significant differences in the degree of sustainable urban liveability for this group of cities, but more importantly, they highlight the potential of this proposal for urban management.

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“…Several years later, Blancas et al [73] again applied the goal concept to the synthetic indicator context. They were followed by other authors working in various fields, such as tourism sustainability [74][75][76], sustainability of water supply companies [77], or urban livability [78,79].…”

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“…The construction of synthetic indicators using this technique presents several advantages over other techniques. Firstly, it facilitates the work of interpretation and decision-making by territorial managers [78], as we explained before. Secondly, in contrast to other aggregation techniques that require a certain size to guarantee their discrimination capacity, goal programming may be applied even if the number of variables exceeds the number of units [73].…”

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“…As the for the aspiration levels, and in view of the lack of external references, we opted to use standards by means of empirical analysis [88]. Although the use of these standards has some disadvantages, it is common for planners to implicitly establish aspiration levels for each of the dimensions by comparing the performance of similar or better-performing units [73,78]. On the basis of this argument, the aspiration level was set as the arithmetic mean of the value of each indicator for all 50 provinces.…”

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A Territorial Estimate for Household Energy Vulnerability: An Application for Spain

2020

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This paper proposes a composite indicator intended to assess territorial differences in household energy vulnerability. Although the estimation of household energy vulnerability has received less attention in scientific literature than energy poverty, it is a key element for political action as it allows for the diagnosis and subsequent action to tackle potential situations of household poverty before they actually occur. In this sense, the principal contribution of this article is a proposal for a tool designed to quantify the abstract and multidimensional phenomenon of household energy vulnerability. The technique used for constructing this synthetic indicator allows for the participation of stakeholders, especially policy makers, in defining and calculating the index. The synthetic index for energy vulnerability has been estimated for Spanish provinces. The results allow for the creation of a map providing an approximate insight into the spatial distribution of household energy vulnerability in Spain.

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Evaluation and Management of Urban Liveability: A Goal Programming Based Composite Indicator

Cited by 15 publications

References 65 publications

A Two-Phase Method to Assess the Sustainability of Water Companies

A Two-Phase Method to Assess the Sustainability of Water Companies

Sustainable Urban Liveability: A Practical Proposal Based on a Composite Indicator

A Territorial Estimate for Household Energy Vulnerability: An Application for Spain

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