Quantitative measurement of the intra-subsystem and inter-subsystem relationship in the sustainable development of Vietnam
Quantitative measurement of the intra-subsystem and inter-subsystem relationship in the sustainable development of Vietnam

Summary/Abstract: Sustainable development can be perceived as the development that guarantees the balance between economic development, social well-being and environmental component, to satisfy the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainable development now becomes zeitgeist of our age. From one hand, it is a way to define the goals which a good society should achieve to ensure better quality of life for all inhabitants of the planet, both for the present generation and for future generations. From the other hand, sustainable development is a way to understand the world as a complex interaction within and between economic, social, environmental subsystems. This article aims to measure the intra-subsystem and inter-subsystem relationship in sustainable development which can be used to reflect the level of equilibrium by analyzing the statistical relationships within and between the three main subsystems of sustainability (economic, social and environmental). All of the analysis use the complete raw data set provided for 24 indicators for the year 2016 of 63 administrative units of Vietnam. The results show that there is an aver-age relationship within each subsystem of sustainable development in Vietnam expressed by the latent dimen-sions extracted in the procedure of principal component analysis. There is also an average relationship between subsystems of sustainable development in Vietnam measured by the level of mutual explanation of original set of variables of each subsystem in the procedure of canonical correlation (canonical redundancy).

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