Relationships among sustainability dimensions: evidence from an Alpine area case study using Dominance-based Rough Set Approach

Ferretti, Paola; Zolin, Maria Bruna; Ferraro, Giacomo

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104457

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“…The first and the third types of rule represent the certain knowledge extracted from data, while the second and the fourth types of rule represent the possible knowledge. The fifth type of rule represents doubtful knowledge, because it is supported only by inconsistent objects [52,57]. Furthermore, a set of decision rules is complete when it covers all the considered objects (i.e., the examples of ordinal classification) in such a way that the consistent objects are re-assigned to their original classes, while the inconsistent objects are assigned to clusters of classes referring to this inconsistency.…”

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Insects as Novel Food: A Consumer Attitude Analysis through the Dominance-Based Rough Set Approach

Roma

Palmisano

Boni

2020

Foods

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In Western societies, the unfamiliarity with insect-based food is a hindrance for consumption and market development. This may depend on neophobia and reactions of disgust, individual characteristics and socio-cultural background, and risk-perceptions for health and production technologies. In addition, in many European countries, the sale of insects for human consumption is still illegal, although European Union (EU) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) are developing regulatory frameworks and environmental and quality standards. This research aims to advance the knowledge on entomophagy, providing insights to improve consumer acceptance in Italy. This is done by carrying out the characterization of a sample of consumers according to their willingness to taste several types of insect-based food and taking into account the connections among the consumers’ features. Thus, the dominance-based rough set approach is applied using the data collected from 310 Italian consumers. This approach provided 206 certain decision rules characterizing the consumers into five groups, showing the consumers’ features determining their specific classification. Although many Italian consumers are willing to accept only insects in the form of feed stuffs or supplements, this choice is a first step towards entomophagy. Conversely, young Italian people are a niche market, but they can play a role in changing trends.

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Insects as Novel Food: A Consumer Attitude Analysis through the Dominance-Based Rough Set Approach

Roma

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2020

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“…The identification of the state of sustainability at different territorial levels (in our case municipalities) allows policy makers to target policies and strategies for achieving a balance between the different sustainability dimensions. The literature offers numerous applications relating to the measurement of sustainability [5,8,9,12,36] mainly in rural areas, but peripheral areas are not excluded. Our study, compared to those proposed by the literature, focuses on four territorial typologies that hinge on the concept of periphery, connecting it to that of rurality, which, in the selected municipalities, has been shown to be either intermediate rural or rural with comprehensive development problems.…”

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“…From a territorial sustainable development perspective, a multi-criteria approach is recognized as a useful tool [8,9], about which a vast and growing literature has been developed [10][11][12]. More specifically, we used the rough set theory (RST) approach because of its capacity to discover hidden patterns in data [9].…”

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Sustainability in Peripheral and Ultra-Peripheral Rural Areas through a Multi-Attribute Analysis: The Case of the Italian Insular Region

2020

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Italy has adopted the strategy of inner areas, mainly based on physical distance from public services. The strategy promotes a multi-level and multi-fund governance approach and the local partnership of mayors. Our paper focuses on rural areas, identified by the national strategy of inner areas, as peripheral and ultra-peripheral, in the Italian insular region (Sicily and Sardinia). It analyzes, at the municipality level, socio-demographic, economic, and environmental sustainability using appropriate indicators. Aiming at discovering the underlying relationship portrayed by multi-attribute data in an information system, we applied rough set theory. The inductive decision rules obtained through this data mining methodology reveal the simultaneous presence or absence of important characteristics aiming at reaching different levels of sustainability. Without the requirement of statistical assumptions regarding data distribution or structures for collecting data, such as functions or equations, this method ensures the description of patterns exhibited by data. Of particular interest is the assessment of conditional attributes (i.e., the selected indicators), and the information connecting them to sustainability, as a decision attribute. The most important result is rule generation, specifically, decision rules that are able to suggest tools for policy makers at different levels.

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“…Policymakers and the general public would appreciate it if they know the environmental situation at any given moment, and a single indicator would be ideal [25]. Some of the common environmental sustainability indicators are reported as follows [26][27][28][29]:…”

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A review on energy efficiency for pathetic environmental trends mitigation

Danish

Senjyu

Ahmadi

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J Sustainability Outreach

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Environmental sustainability and climate changes mitigation are linked with energy efficiency and renewable energy deployment. Whereas, renewable energy exploitation at large scale generation needs high initial investment, which is not achievable in short to medium terms, especially in developing countries. Therefore, energy efficiency measures as a good alternative for environmental sustainability are the researchers' interest to evaluate its potential from individual energy consumers to utilityscale (generation, transmission, and distribution). Referring to literature and the connection between the second law of thermodynamics and environmental impact, environmental effects are reduced due to low energy when energy efficiency increases. Therefore, assuring demanding efficiency, interrelations studies, and impact analysis of influential factors are known exigence. This study draws a thematic perspective that involves an exhaustive investigation, explaining the relationship between exergy, environment, and energy within optimum efficiency requirements. Also, this study deals with indicators and indices in adapt to energy and environmental demand to reveal the underlying fundamental impressing forces regarding efficiency improvement.

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Relationships among sustainability dimensions: evidence from an Alpine area case study using Dominance-based Rough Set Approach

Cited by 17 publications

References 30 publications

Insects as Novel Food: A Consumer Attitude Analysis through the Dominance-Based Rough Set Approach

Insects as Novel Food: A Consumer Attitude Analysis through the Dominance-Based Rough Set Approach

Sustainability in Peripheral and Ultra-Peripheral Rural Areas through a Multi-Attribute Analysis: The Case of the Italian Insular Region

A review on energy efficiency for pathetic environmental trends mitigation

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