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Strategic Planning of Regional Sustainable
Development Using Factor Analysis Method
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University of Niš, Univerzitetski trg 2, Niš, Serbia
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International Clean Water Institute, Manassas, VA and NJCU – State University of New Jersey, NJ USA
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University of Niš, Faculty of Occupational Safety in Niš, Čarnojevića 10a, Niš, Serbia
Submission date: 2020-02-24
Acceptance date: 2020-06-28
Online publication date: 2020-09-26
Publication date: 2021-01-20
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Dejan Vasović
Faculty of Occupational Safety in Niš, University of Niš, Čarnojevića 10a, Niš, Serbia
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2021;30(2):1317-1323
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Sustainable development of a regional and local community involves setting a strategic balance
among economic, social, and environmental criteria (factors) of development. Due to their large number,
physical quantity variance, and incompleteness, these factors have a limited, sometimes even conflicting
and ineffectual application in producing a unified effect on development. This issue becomes resolvable
through a modification of factor analysis by means of combining it with multi-criteria decision analysis
(MCDA). The solutions thus obtained in the form of a ranking, with the top-ranked solution being the
most favorable, constitute immense support for decision makers to use the proposed most favorable
solution to formulate and implement their plan of development.