Silesian University of Technology, Akademicka 2A, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.
Sci Total Environ. 2021 Dec 20;801:149745. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149745. Epub 2021 Aug 21.
The growing social awareness of environmental protection entails that the assumptions of the sustainable development idea are being implemented in various economic sectors at an increasingly fast pace. One of them is the power industry, the sustainable development of which is now becoming a priority in economic policy for many countries. The paper refers to this issue by developing methodology for both studying and assessing the level of sustainable energy development in the Central and Eastern European Countries. The study involved 21 indicators characterizing the sustainable energy development of these countries in the areas of energy, environmental, economic, and social security for 2008 and 2018. When considering the complexity of the subject matter and the wide scope of the research, four methods of multi-criteria data analysis (TOPSIS, VIKOR, MOORA and COPRAS) were used. For each of them, based on the adopted criteria, synthetic indicators were determined, which allowed for the assessment of the level of sustainable energy development in the CEE countries. Weights for the adopted indicators were identified based on the Shanon's Entropy method. Afterwards, an unambiguous assessment of the level of sustainable energy development of the CEE countries was performed. The results showed that in 2008 and 2018, the best ranking position was held by Latvia and Croatia, and the worst ranking position was held by Poland and Bulgaria. The method of multidimensional scaling made it possible to determine the positions of studied countries on scatter plots in two-dimensional space, which showed differences between individual CEE countries. All in all, the applied methods allowed for a considerably broad assessment of the level of sustainable energy development of the CEE countries.
环境保护的社会意识日益增强，这意味着可持续发展理念的假设正在各个经济领域以越来越快的速度得到实施。其中之一是电力行业，其可持续发展现在成为许多国家经济政策的优先事项。本文通过开发用于研究和评估中东欧国家可持续能源发展水平的方法来解决这个问题。该研究涉及 2008 年和 2018 年 21 个指标，这些指标描述了这些国家在能源、环境、经济和社会安全领域的可持续能源发展情况。考虑到主题的复杂性和研究范围的广泛，使用了四种多准则数据分析方法（TOPSIS、VIKOR、MOORA 和 COPRAS）。对于每种方法，根据采用的标准，确定了综合指标，这使得可以评估中东欧国家的可持续能源发展水平。根据香农熵方法确定了所采用指标的权重。然后，对中东欧国家可持续能源发展水平进行了明确评估。结果表明，2008 年和 2018 年，拉脱维亚和克罗地亚的排名最高，波兰和保加利亚的排名最低。多维尺度分析方法使我们能够在二维空间的散点图上确定研究国家的位置，从而显示了各个中东欧国家之间的差异。总的来说，所采用的方法使得对中东欧国家可持续能源发展水平进行相当广泛的评估成为可能。
