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Accounting and Statistical Analyses for Sustainable Development

Part of the Sustainable Management, Wertschöpfung und Effizienz Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-33246-4

ISBN: 978-3-658-33245-7

Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden - Springer Journals

Mar 31, 2021

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Chapter 1Introduction

Lemke, Claudia

Pages: 1 –7

[The Atlantic hurricane season terminated for this term with category-5 hurricanes such as Dorian (National Weather Service, 2019). Because of climate change, intense and damaging hurricanes are three times more frequent nowadays than 100 years ago (Grinsted, Ditlevsen & Hesselbjerg, 2019;...
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Chapter 2Conceptual framework of sustainable development

Lemke, Claudia

Pages: 9 –39

[In this chapter, a conceptual framework of sustainable development is elaborated by an extensive literature research. Along with this, the first four research gaps are uncovered. Jabareen (2009) defines a “conceptual framework as a network [...] of interlinked concepts that together provide a...
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Chapter 3Measuring and assessing contributions to sustainable development

Lemke, Claudia

Pages: 41 –62

[Measurement and assessment of sustainable development must be executed to reduce the risk of failure in the transition to sustainability. The old axiom “what gets measured gets managed” (e.g. Parris & Kates, 2003) or its reverse “what is not measured often gets ignored” (e.g. Giljum, Burger,...
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Chapter 4Methodology

Lemke, Claudia

Pages: 63 –111

[Because sustainable development only becomes defined when measured (see Chapter 3; e.g. Bell & Morse, 2008), sustainable development index construction is an unsupervised modelling task without a supervising output variable (G. James, Witten, Hastie & Tibshirani, 2013). Consequently, sustainable...
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Chapter 5Empirical findings

Lemke, Claudia

Pages: 113 –180

[In this chapter, the previously developed methodology of the MLSDI (see Chapter 4) is computed for a sample region, and the empirical findings are presented and discussed. Thereby, the knowledge (see Section 2.3.3; e.g. Weitz et al., 2018) and the sustainability gap (see Section 2.3.4; e.g. Hall...
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Chapter 6Discussion and conclusion

Lemke, Claudia

Pages: 181 –192

[This chapter discusses and reflects on the accomplished theoretical (see Chapter 2 and Chapter 3), methodological (see Chapter 4), and the empirical research (see Chapter 5). The present work is part of Phase C of the transdisciplinary research agenda in sustainability science (see Section...

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