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Sustainability is a multidimensional concept in continuous evolution. However, the suitability of using several indicators of a diverse nature to characterise and quantify this concept has been widely accepted. Within this orientation, in this work, the paper industry’s sustainability in a significant number of European countries has been analysed. To achieve this purpose, a set of economic, environmental and social indicators have been defined for the year 2004. With the help of a binary goal programming model, these indicators were aggregated into a synthetic index that measures the overall sustainability of the industry analysed. In this way, a “ranking” according to the sustainability of the paper industry in the European countries studied has been obtained.
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This work was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science under project AGL2008-01457, and by the Autonomous Government of Madrid under project Q060705083. Thanks go to Diana Badder for editing the English.
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Voces, R., Diaz-Balteiro, L., Romero, C. (2010). In Search of a European Paper Industry Ranking in Terms of Sustainability by Using Binary Goal Programming. In: Jones, D., Tamiz, M., Ries, J. (eds) New Developments in Multiple Objective and Goal Programming. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 638. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10354-4_10
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