Sustainability Simulator

The sustainability simulator is an example of the different weighing impacts of the three pillars of sustainability. The sustainability evaluation is based on the three farms’ data from three countries ( France, Ireland, and Germany).

The following table presents some general characteristics of these farms

Furthermore, based on the gathered data several parameters were estimated, as it presents the following table.

The environmental sustainability as evaluated based on DEXi method is presented in Table 3.

Table 3. Results of environmental sustainability attributes for the three dairy cattle farming systems

The aggregated score of the environmental sustainability pillar for the three dairy cattle farming systems is given in Table 4.

Table 4. Environmental sustainability performance of the three dairy cattle farming systems after aggregating the scores of the environmental attributes.

Economic sustainability evaluation based on Dexi.

Social sustainability evaluation based on Dexi

SUSTAINABILITY SIMULATOR

The sustainability simulator comprises a simple tool for testing the effect of modifying the relative weights of the three sustainability pillars at the higher level on the total sustainability score of three different dairy cattle farming systems in three different European countries (France, Ireland, and Germany). In the text that follows, valuable information on the systems whose sustainability is estimated using the DEXi method is provided.

Table 1 presents some general characteristics of these farming systems that define their profile.

Table 1. Profiles of the different dairy cattle farming systems examined

Furthermore, based on the collected data from these farming systems, several environmental impacts and energy indicators were estimated (Table 2).

Table 2. Environmental impact and energy category indicators are estimated for the three dairy cattle farming systems.

The environmental sustainability as evaluated based on DEXi method is presented in Table 3.

Table 3. Results of environmental sustainability attributes for the three dairy cattle farming systems

The aggregated score of the environmental sustainability pillar for the three dairy cattle farming systems is given in Table 4.

Table 4. Environmental sustainability performance of the three dairy cattle farming systems after aggregating the scores of the environmental attributes.

Table 5 presents the economic sustainability as evaluated based on the DEXi method.

Table 5. Results of economic sustainability attributes for the three dairy cattle farming systems

The aggregated score of the economic sustainability pillar for the three dairy cattle farming systems is given in Table 6.

Table 6. Economic sustainability performance of the three dairy cattle farming systems after aggregating the scores of the economic attributes.

Table 7 presents the social sustainability of the three dairy cattle farming systems as evaluated based on the DEXi method.

Table 7. Results of social sustainability attributes for the three dairy cattle farming systems

The aggregated score of the social sustainability pillar for the three dairy cattle farming systems is given in Table 8.

Table 8. Social sustainability performance of the three dairy cattle farming systems after aggregating the scores of the social attributes.

USE OF THE SUSTAINABILITY SIMULATOR

In order to use the sustainability simulator, please use the following link.

Helpful information: Please be sure that the sum of the weight percentages for each sustainability pillar is equal to 100 and then press submit in order to see, the relevant to your choices, results.

http://calculator.milkey-project.eu/