This study provides an analysis of Cambodian socio‐economic
and environmental development. The analysis applies the Sustainable
Society Index—database and uses Sustainability Window analyses linked to
the green growth strategy in Cambodia. The novel analyses provide
criteria for weak and strong sustainability and are further developed to
evaluate the green growth productivity gap.

We have carried out empirical analyses using indicators of
the different dimensions of sustainability—economic, social, and
environmental. The Sustainability Window defines the minimum economic
development for social sustainability and the maximum economic
development for environmental criterion for sustainability.

This study demonstrates methodological usefulness of the
Sustainability Window analysis in the fields of development studies and
green growth. The methodological novelty of this study is to use
Sustainability Window approach and to provide a novel empirical testbed
for strong and weak sustainability analyses as well as for the analysis
of the green growth resource use productivity gap.