Naslov
EVALUATING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY GOALS OF SELECTED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
(EVALUATING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY GOALS OF SELECTED EUROPEAN COUNTRIES)

Autori
Škrinjarić, Tihana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Conference Proceedings of the International Conference on the Economics of Decoupling (ICED) / Družić, Gordan ; Gelo, Tomislav - Zagreb : Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti (HAZU) ; Ekonomski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2020, 323-341

Skup
International Conference on Economics of Decoupling (ICED)

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 02.12.2019. - 03.12.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
performance evaluation ; Grey Relational Analysis ; ranking ; pillars of sustainable development ; principles of circular economy

Sažetak
This research aims to empirically evaluate and rank selected European Union (EU) Member States in their achievement of sustainable development (SD) and circular economy (CE) goals. Legislation of the European Union imposes similar rules and regulations, which should push practices towards similar behaviour of every country. Although the research on SD and CE issues has been growing rapidly in recent years, there is still a gap regarding objective measurements of meeting SD and CE targets. This is particularly true for CE specifi c themes. Moreover, there is a gap in the literature on measuring the effi ciency of countries in both areas. The empirical analysis in this paper focuses on yearly data for the period 2010–2016 for 23 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden). The methodology applied in the study is based on the Grey Relational Analysis, a nonparametric approach of ranking entities based on multiple criteria. The ranking was made based on variables that measure SD and CE goals in conjunction, and additionally, by separating the two groups. Robust rankings indicate that there are differences between countries, which are most obvious between the Western and Eastern countries. However, the worst-ranked countries are showing an increase in their respective Grey Relational Degrees, indicating an increase of SD and CE effi ciency within those countries in the last couple of years. Policy recommendations comments are based on the results of the analysis. The robustness of the results was checked via another nonparametric approach (Data Envelopment Analysis), which confi rms the previously obtained fi ndings.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Matematika, Ekonomija

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