Enhancing Sustainable Community Developments A Multi-criteria Evaluation Model for Energy Efficient Project Selection

Hsueh, Sung‐Lin; Yan, Min‐Ren

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2011.03.025

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“…The Delphi method was developed by the U.S. RAND Corporation to assist management in predicting future events. However, its application scope is not restricted to predicting future events [1,58]. In this study, we explain the Delphi method as a group decision-making technique, including its uses, underlying assumptions, strengths and limitations, potential benefits to qualitative higher education research, and key considerations in its use.…”

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“…Researchers that have applied DAHP include Tavana and Liao [75,76]. Studies that have applied Fuzzy-AHP include those investigating optimum maintenance strategies [77], enhancing sustainable community developments [58], and evaluating the rankings of alternatives [78].…”

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“…AHP is also commonly applied to social, policy, and engineering decision-making issues [59,60]. AHP is employed in research for enhancing sustainable community development [58], the estimation and selection of building investments [61], maintenance selection problems [62], project management [63], maintenance strategy selections [64], evaluations of advanced construction technologies [65], decision-support systems in the housing sector [64], urban renewal proposals [66], and sustainable urban energy environment management [67].…”

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“…The multi-criteria decision-making technique [56,57] featured in the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), was used to verify the relative importance of each criterion. The quantifying ability of fuzzy logic theory was used to establish a model that evaluates energy-saving designs of residential buildings [1,58]. This enables effective resolution of energy-saving issues related to residential buildings during the early stages of design.…”

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A DFuzzy-DAHP Decision-Making Model for Evaluating Energy-Saving Design Strategies for Residential Buildings

Liu

Hsueh

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Energies

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Abstract:The construction industry is a high-pollution and high-energy-consumption industry. Energy-saving designs for residential buildings not only reduce the energy consumed during construction, but also reduce long-term energy consumption in completed residential buildings. Because building design affects investment costs, designs are often influenced by investors' decisions. A set of appropriate decision-support tools for residential buildings are required to examine how building design influences corporations externally and internally. From the perspective of energy savings and environmental protection, we combined three methods to develop a unique model for evaluating the energy-saving design of residential buildings. Among these methods, the Delphi group decision-making method provides a co-design feature, the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) includes multi-criteria decision-making techniques, and fuzzy logic theory can simplify complex internal and external factors into easy-to-understand numbers or ratios that facilitate decisions. The results of this study show that incorporating solar building materials, double-skin facades, and green roof designs can effectively provide high energy-saving building designs.

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“…The major purpose of sustainability is the integration of all dimensions: social, economic and environmental into the successful attainment of CD (Hsueh & Yan, 2011). Sustainability is defined in the IFAD Strategic Framework for 2007 to 2010 as: the support of initiatives and projects as well as the gains realised at the end of the project (2007).…”

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The Nigerian Oil Industry: Assessing Community Development and Sustainability

Makpor¹,

Leite²

2017

IJBM

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Purpose: The reoccurrence of loss in revenue generation from the oil industry which is due to the unstable and heated relationship between oil corporations and host communities in the Niger Delta (ND) region of Nigeria has spurred the strategic social permission of oil multinational corporations (OMNCs) to operate in the country. Thus, OMNCs have continually given attention to the challenges faced by the region through community development in terms of initiatives and projects. Community development (CD) and sustainability are core to viable social responsibility (SR) whether from the part of government or from OMNCs. However, since the independence of the country in 1960, a lot of development agencies and commissions have been established by the government towards social and infrastructural development in the ND region. These agencies and commissions often combine efforts with OMNCs to enforce development and sustainability in the region which consequently result in mutual benefits on both ends. The purpose of this paper is to critically examine CD and sustainability of host communities in the ND by evaluating initiatives conducted by government development agencies such as the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and OMNCs such as ExxonMobil and Shell Petroleum Development Commission (SPDC) in the region.Approach/Design/Methodology: The paper applied a qualitative research approach. It conceptualises CD and sustainability and examines the views of community members on initiatives from the NDDC and OMNCs. Instruments for primary data collection were the Focus Group Discussion, In-depth Interviews (IDIs) and observation. The research made use of thirty IDIs and five FGDs. Secondary sources of data were journal articles, reports and other documents from both the OMNCs and NDDC. It also made use of the Nvivo11 software to organise the data while a content-based analysis was used to set data into themes. The study puts into consideration the perspectives of different community members as well as the various concepts which exist in the literature.Findings: Analysis reveals that there is positive impact when development takes place in host communities and sustainability attained but consequently, there are no probable and visible improvement of the OMNCs operations and business in the region, which is why there is reoccurrence of revenue loss in the country from the oil sector.Value/Originality: This paper gives voice to participants in a social setting by highlighting the importance of CD and sustainability in the ND region. It does this by looking into the different initiatives conducted by the NDDC, ExxonMobile and SPDC.

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Multicriteria decision making for sustainable development: A systematic review

Kandakoğlu

Frini

Amor

2019

Multi Criteria Decision Anal

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Making decisions by integrating social and environmental concerns beyond the financial dimension involves complex decision-making processes in which innovative approaches and best practices need to be implemented. Recently, the literature on decision-making related to sustainable development has grown rapidly, and multiple criteria decision making or analysis (MCDM/A) methods appear to be the most widely used approaches. The general objective of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the literature on the use of MCDM/A in a sustainable development context. We carefully analysed 343 papers dealing with decision-making in sustainable development contexts published in the last 7 years (2010-2017) using MCDM/A methods. Descriptive statistics were provided to highlight the main trends and gaps in the literature, and future research avenues were presented. The results show that although sustainable development strives to achieve a balance between the short and the long term, most articles surveyed did not investigate either the long-term perspective related to sustainable development or the unforeseen events that could impact future project evaluations. Indeed, the need for temporal MCDM/A methods under uncertainty emerges as an important research challenge. In addition, resultsshow that the social dimension was the most frequently ignored dimension. In future research, decision-making processes should closely investigate social well-being and encourage the participation of stakeholders (including the communities affected).Finally, the recent research on sustainability is relatively easy to implement but may not lead to the desired outcome. Future research needs to develop methods that promote sustainability without being overly difficult to implement in practice. KEYWORDS multicriteria decision making or analysis (MCDM/A), sustainable development, temporal evaluation, uncertainty 1 | INTRODUCTION Today's decision-making processes evolve in a context in which sustainability is a major concern and decisions have to be made based on the triple bottom line. Decision processes should simultaneously take into account the economic, social, and environmental impacts of decisions within a long-term vision. Making decisions beyond the financial dimension by integrating social and environmental concerns involves complex decision-making processes in which innovative approaches and best practices need to be developed and implemented.As a major societal concern, sustainable development (SD) is now incorporated into the legislation of many countries around the world.

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Enhancing Sustainable Community Developments A Multi-criteria Evaluation Model for Energy Efficient Project Selection

Cited by 31 publications

References 9 publications

A DFuzzy-DAHP Decision-Making Model for Evaluating Energy-Saving Design Strategies for Residential Buildings

A DFuzzy-DAHP Decision-Making Model for Evaluating Energy-Saving Design Strategies for Residential Buildings

The Nigerian Oil Industry: Assessing Community Development and Sustainability

Multicriteria decision making for sustainable development: A systematic review

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