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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.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.