Measurement of Composites Index on Low Carbon Development Supporting Food Security
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Page 2..paragraph 4 " low carbon development is challenging to study because it is still rarely measured, especially in terms of determining influential indicators. So far many studies have only discussed sustainable development" Provide examples of such studies.
continuation...." No one has discussed the low carbon development index, especially in relation to food security " is it possible to be very sure that no one has discussed the issue? Better to be more tentative and say that authors did not come across any studies....
page 2... how many indicators did Rahma, Hania and Fauzi use? in comparison
page 7 " Agricultural performance on LCD using low-emission rice varieties that can increase rice production while contributing to emission reductions" This sentence is unclear. kindly check it.
A recommendations is included within the results section .. " that the government should find new superior varieties, because each region has different characteristics. recommendations are generally left for the conclusion section. Something to consider
page 8.... " Most of Java Island water quality is polluted due to high human activities, so it is natural that the highest EQI and IUPV values are in Papua" maybe replace natural with expected or unsurprising. Natural has to do with nature while EQI and IUPI are concepts that do not * exist in nature' so to speak.
Page 8 the claim that " ....because production is abundant but the rice does not have quality in terms of nutrition. Also it is not good for consumption and dangerous in terms of health, so....." is there any support/empirical evidence for these claims?
Page 15 " research using this composite index measurement has developed a low carbon development index (LCDI) that is very useful to be implemented at the provincial level" Does this refer to the provincial level in Indonesia or more generally? kindly specify.
Author Response
We thank the reviewer for the suggestion and all the review points have been incorporated into the manuscript. Please find the details attached.
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Reviewer 2 Report
This paper has described the measurement of the Composites Index on Low Carbon Development Supporting Food Security in Indonesia. It is meaningful in some extend. However, the major revision and issues should be addressed and improved for this paper as below:
- The equations (1)- (3) need to be improved since the I+and I-are not connected with the =, and (3) is long that is outside.
- The English should be improved since the paper is not easy to read.
- The TOPSIS should be presented its whole name in the abstract.
- So many indexes have been evaluated in this paper, so what is the association with the food safety and how they support the low carbon development of the food safety?
- The font is figures is not consistent with the font of the paper. The figures should be better to be consistent for more easy to read.
- What is the finally the composite index measured in this paper?
- This paper has emphasised mainly about the indexes, However, the measurement results did not discussion with the food security supporting as shown in title. So the connection should be presented at the introduction and conclusions.
Author Response
We thank the reviewer for the suggestion and all the review points have been incorporated into the manuscript. Please find the details attached.
Author Response File: Author Response.pdf
Reviewer 3 Report
The manuscript presents a fascinating study in which the concept of low carbon development (LCD) implementation in Indonesia is studied. The study was developed in 34 provinces of Indonesia using secondary data from the period 2014–2018. Data were obtained from national authorities of Indonesia, such as the Central Bureau of Statistics and several Indonesian ministries. Because LCD is a new initiative for Indonesia, the authors used some strategic indicators that influence the achievement of development. They built LCD using four dimensions with eight indicators: (a) economic dimension with gross domestic product growth (GDPG), unemployment rate (UNR) and wetland area (WLA), (b) social dimension with human development index (HDI) and Gini index (GI), (c) environmental dimension with environmental quality index (EQI) and unpolluted village (UPV), and (d) low carbon dimension with greenhouse gas emissions (GGE). Thus, they integrated macro-regional development indicators (GDPG, HDI, and UNR) with LCD indicators (EQI and GGE). Each indicator was normalized first, and then the Shannon entropy, arithmetic and geometric mean, Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), and integrated LCD index methods were applied. An integrated LCD index (LCDI) has been developed by combining the LCDI calculated by the TOPSIS method (LCDI-T) with the one calculated by Shannon entropy (LCDI-E). The indicators obtained were extensively discussed, showing that the differences between the islands of the Indonesian Archipelago used in the analysis were significant. The authors highlighted the importance of considering economic the social dimensions besides the environmental and low carbon ones. The LCDI can be used at the provinces’ level to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Indonesia. It also can be used as a reference for the central and local governments in planning LCD interventions, evaluating target achievement, and monitoring the implementation of LCD in the province.
The manuscript is well organized and written.
Observation and recommendations
Line numbering is missing.
Keywords are not appropriate for data retrieval (Low carbon development is repeated)
Small suggestions of correction are presented below as examples. (Due to line numbering missing there are only a few examples.)
Page 1
Abstract
L4 of the Abstract Replace ”aimed at maintaining” with ”to maintain”.
L5 of the Abstract Replace ”reduction of” with ”reduce”.
L9 of the Abstract Remove the comma after ”rate”.
L10 of the Abstract Add a comma after ”indicators” and replace ”include” with ”including”.
L11 of the Abstract Replace ”by means of” with „through”.
L12 of the Abstract Delete ”that there are”.
L13 of the Abstract Replace ”with regard to” with ”concerning”.
Introduction
L2 of Introduction, Page 1 Remove comma after ”maintained”.
L6 of Introduction, Page 1 Correct the article use: insert ”the” after ”on”.
L11 of Introduction, Page 1 Replace ”which results” with ”resulting”.
L12 of Introduction, Page 1 Replace ”productivity” with ”production”.
L16 of Introduction, Page 1 Delete ”terms of”.
Page 2
L9 of Introduction, Page 2 Insert the article ”the” before ”concept”.
L38 of Introduction, Page 2 Insert commas before and after ”in turns”.
L42 of Introduction, Page 2 Replace ”discussed” with „examined”.
L51 of Introduction, Page 2 Insert a comma after ”Indonesia”.
Author Response
We thank the reviewer for the suggestion and all the points of the review have been incorporated accordingly. Please find the updated version of the manuscript.
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
This paper was revised well.
