Journal
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Volume 23, Issue 2, Pages 110-123Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/sd.1577
Keywords
sustainable development; level of development; classifications of countries; European Union
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Sustainable development is indeed a complex phenomena, thus making the comparison and valuation of advances of EU-member states in the implementation of its objectives specifically difficult. The authors attempted to establish a synthetic measure of the level of sustainable development taking into account simultaneously three components: economic, social and environmental. It was aimed to compare particular countries by the mentioned measure and then grouping them. Relying on basis of content aspects the basics of research were headline indicators of sustainable development, sourced from the 2005-2012 research period formed the premise of the study. The study results demonstrate ongoing gradual advances being made in the implementation of concepts of sustainable development in EU-member states. Although there can be visible a gradual convergence of EU-member states in respect of their levels of sustainable development, nonetheless majority of countries still post indicators of sustainable development below the EU average, especially those which recently became members of the European Union. Copyright (c) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment
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