Author(s)

Tianyu Liu, Jianping Tang, Lihe Chai, Zhanping Cao

Corresponding Author

Tianyu Liu

ABSTRACT

This paper provides an evaluation index selection system for sustainable development (SD), which is more objective, flexible and dynamic. Keywords can be regarded as the consensus of the academics. A co-word network for SD can be constructed based on the co-word network method with keywords. The K-core filtration is a method to find vertices with the most structural importance. The SD network after the K-core filtration is regarded as the consensuses of the academics on the SD issue. Based on the filtered network, communities of vertices are detected. They are treated as the principle layer in the evaluation index selection system, while the vertices are treated as the domain layer. Further selection of vertices is needed to find those appropriate vertices with available factors to describe. The evaluation index selection system is built according to the selected vertices with principle layer, domain layer and factors. The normalized degree of a selected vertex to all selected vertices is the weight of the vertex. A case study of Daqing City is used to verify the effectiveness of the system. The result of the evaluation based on the proposed system shows a more promising further for SD.

KEYWORDS

Co-word network, Sustainable development, sustainable development evaluation, index Selection System, evaluation Index