Monitoring Development Sustainability through Sustainable Community Indicators

Proceedings

Jitsuchon, Somchai¹ 

[1] Thailand Development Research Institute, Bangkok 10310, Thailand

关键词: sustainable development indicators;    monitoring;    evaluation;    King Bhumibol Adulyadej;    sufficiency economy philosophy;   

DOI  :  10.3390/proceedings2221396

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is both a continuation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and an improvement on the addition of ‘means of implementation’ to achieve the goals. The SDGs recognize that countries should have their own ways to achieve development goals. In this regard, Thailand, through its ‘sufficiency economy philosophy’ (SEP) invented by the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej, has created a unique path to attain sustainable development. The SEP path involves (a) shaping personal attitudes and behaviors towards sufficiency and (b) setting procedures or protocols for development projects and programmes. In this paper, we developed a system of indicators that capture the first component—personal attitudes and behaviors—of the sufficiency economy philosophy practiced by Thai people, as well as a set of ultimate development outcome indicators, using data from nation-wide household and community surveys. We then analyze how practicing the sufficiency economy philosophy is associated with development outcomes, where we find positive correlation between the two groups of indicators.

【 授权许可】

CC BY