Andrea Mecca
Università di Siena
Emanuele Giordano
DEPS, USiena
Francesca Gagliardi
DEPS USiena
Abstract
The main objective of the paper is to provide a step-by-step procedure for the construction of a multidimensional indicator for measuring the sustainability of businesses and food chains. We first propose a short review of the literature on composite sustainability indicators and a theoretical overview of the statistical methods used in the various phases of their construction, such as topic-modelling techniques and multivariate methods for identifying latent dimensions and defining appropriate weights for aggregation. We adopt a multidimensional double fuzzy set approach, widely used in poverty measurement. The indicator is then applied to the 20 Italian regions with reference to a special data set of 2021, which is the last available survey year
Keywords
agrifood, sustainability, measures, fuzzy
Jel codes
R11,Q01,C83
