Just Transition Score: Measuring the relative sustainability of social progress
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F24%3A73627746" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/24:73627746 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665972724001089" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2665972724001089</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2024.100440" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.indic.2024.100440</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Just Transition Score: Measuring the relative sustainability of social progress
Original language description
Sustainable development of countries necessitates parallel enhancements of societal wellbeing and reductions of environmental impacts. To track how countries perform to achieve these twin objectives, we introduce and calculate a novel metric called the Just Transition Score (JTS) that aims to assess countries' relative sustainability of social progress. Based on the content of environmental impacts per unit of progress, we calculate the JTS for 161 countries from 2011 to 2019. Additionally, we break down the aggregate indicator into two main components, namely the Carbon Just Transition Score, and the Material Just Transition Score. The results show significant disparities across countries both in terms of the overall JTS and its components. Countries with the best JTS performance, such as Portugal, Spain, and Costa Rica achieve the most sustainable social progress, while countries with the lowest JTS scores either fall short on social progress (the poorest countries) or create high environmental damage (such as the Gulf countries). The relative sustainability of social progress of poorer countries can be improved by increasing societal wellbeing while limiting growth of their environmental impacts. In richer countries, improvements would require more aggressive measures aimed at reducing the extent of environmental damage.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS
ISSN
2665-9727
e-ISSN
2665-9727
Volume of the periodical
23
Issue of the periodical within the volume
SEP
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
14
Pages from-to
"100440-1"-"100440-14"
UT code for WoS article
001287907300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85199674697