SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS OF SELECTED EASTERN EUROPEAN AND SOUTH-EAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES VIA PARAMETER OF COMPLEX SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT QI

References: 14th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2014, www.sgem.org, SGEM2014 Conference Proceedings, ISBN 978-619-7105-19-3 / ISSN 1314-2704, June 19-25, 2014, Book 5, Vol. 3, 399-406 pp

ABSTRACT
Sustainable development is such development of human society that harmonises
economic and social progress along with keeping full value of environment. For
comparative purposes as well as assessment of changes of environment on different
levels it is important to quantify it. Presented paper deals with methods of complex
assessment used for quantification its value via complex parameter. Synthesis is based on summarizing the values of selected indicators of sustainable development from these areas: economic, social, environmental and institutional By these means we identify the changes of the state of sustainability within longer time period as well as compare sustainability of selected Eastern European and Southeast European countries.

Keywords: sustainable development, sustainable development indicators, multicriterial analysis, regional development