Covid-19 and sustainable development in Europe: a temporal comparison

• Autores: Marianna Bartiromo
• Localización: Revista de estudios andaluces, ISSN-e 2340-2776, ISSN 0212-8594, Nº 44, 2022, págs. 172-192
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.12795/rea.2022.i44.09
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Covid-19 y desarrollo sostenible en Europa: una comparación temporal
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    Covid-19 ha planteado grandes retos a nivel mundial. Uno de ellos es, sin duda, la consecución de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030.Este estudio pretende analizar, en una perspectiva temporal, los efectos de la pandemia en los niveles de desarrollo sostenible alcanzados en Europa.Para medir el impacto de Covid-19, se construirán 3 índices de sostenibilidad (IS) diferentes referidos a 2015, 2018 y 2020. Para construir estos índices, se utilizarán 17 indicadores (uno por ODS) de la base de datos gratuita de Eurostat. Se utilizará el método AMPI (Mazziotta y Pareto, 2017) para agregar estos indicadores. Este méto-do se basa en una transformación Min-Max y permite una comparación temporal absoluta. Además, este método permite una alta replicabilidad de los resultados. Además, se realizará una agrupación jerárquica según el método de Ward (1963) para captar las diferencias entre las distintas especificidades europeas.Los resultados confirman los efectos negativos de Covid-19. De hecho, hay un em-peoramiento general de los niveles de desarrollo sostenible entre 2015 y 2020.

  • English

    Covid-19 has posed major challenges globally. One of these is undoubtedly the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda.This study aims to analyze, in a time perspective, the effects of the pandemic on the levels of sustainable development achieved in Europe.To measure the impact of Covid-19, 3 different sustainability indices (SIs) will be con-structed referring to 2015, 2018 and 2020. To construct these indices, 17 indicators (one per SDG) from Eurostat’s free database will be used. The Adjusted Mazziotta-Pa-reto Index (AMPI) method will be used to aggregate these indicators. This method relying on a Min-Max transformation allows for an absolute time comparison. In ad-dition, this method allows for high replicability of results. Furthermore, in order to capture the differences between different European specificities, a hierarchical clus-tering will be performed according to the Ward method.The results confirm the negative effects of Covid-19. In fact, there is a general wors-ening of sustainable development levels between 2015 and 2020.

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