Multi-criteria model for sustainable development using goal programming applied to the United Arab Emirates

Jayaraman, Raja; Colapinto, Cinzia; Torre, Davide La; Malik, Tufail

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2015.09.027

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“…Science-based approaches have outlined the dynamic criticisms, interconnections, and incorporations of the 3Ps of sustainable development [33,34], such as the national study applying system dynamics modelling between energy, health, and education targets [24]. Other publications suggested using quantitative methods, such as the 'nexus' approach [19,24,33,35] or multi-criteria analysis [36][37][38][39] to support decision making for SDGs implementation. This current study has considered the multi-criteria decision-making method to align the GE criteria to SD goals through SD indicators.…”

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Aligning the Criteria of Green Economy (GE) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Implement Sustainable Development

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Global economic trends have shown the progression of social inequalities and environmental deterioration in the grey economy. New economic practices and policies need to be developed in order to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). A green economy (GE) has a correlative role with the implementation of sustainable development (SD), which could revive the grey economy, human well-being, and social equity, as well as substantially decrease environmental risks and ecological scarcities. This study aims to develop a hybrid methodological and mathematical approach to prioritize the most effective variables from classified GE and SDGs criteria (23 criteria) to implement SD. This study has deliberated over the Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) technique for considering interconnections among numerous criteria to collect the most effective variables (12 criteria) based on three pillars (3Ps) of SD. Likewise, the analytic network process (ANP) technique ranked these effective variables by considering their network relations based on three indicators. Lastly, integration was used to finalize and prioritize the most effective variables based on their weight from the ANP technique. This study will highlight the green economy with exclusive environmental issues and sustainable growth as the greatest effective variables among GE and SDGs criteria for SD implementation.

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Aligning the Criteria of Green Economy (GE) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Implement Sustainable Development

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“…The questions that have been investigated in this research are: (1) What are the current practices of risk management in construction projects? (2) What are the important risk groups and risk factors that influence the implementation of risk management in OGC projects? (3) What would be the result of applying the DEMATEL-ANP method to construction risk assessment of oil and gas projects?…”

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“…Energy demand is rising, and it is anticipated that worldwide investment in energy-related projects will reach $38 trillion through 2035 [1,2]. In the discussions of sustainable development, energy is one of the key factors that must be considered [3][4][5].…”

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DEMATEL-ANP Risk Assessment in Oil and Gas Construction Projects

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Oil and gas construction projects are complex and risky because of their dynamic environment. Furthermore, rising global energy demand has increased the need for trustworthy risk assessment models for such projects that can provide adequate and precise policy planning. Traditional risk assessments in oil and gas construction projects do not consider the interrelationships of factors in the best-fit models. The Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) and Analytic Network Processes (ANP), called the DEMATEL-ANP approach, have been applied to other research disciplines to address this shortcoming. This method is able to construct a structural relationship among the different influence factors to visualize complex correlations. Thus, the purpose of this study is to showcase the DEMTAL-ANP risk assessment model to assess the overall risk factors of OGC projects. This study thus identifies the crucial risk criteria of such projects. Data were collected in 2016 through interviews with experts active in OGC projects in Iran. DEMATEL in this situation is used to determine the interdependencies' relative strengths among the risks. The ANP method is applied to assess the relative importance of the risk factors and to determine the best strategy for implementation of a risk management program. The results presented in this study are a novel adaptation of the risk assessment methodology to OGC projects that determines the important risk factors that directly affect the project success, which in turn helps in formulation of policies for ensuring reliable energy supply planning.

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“…The main advantage of GP is that it can coordinate multiple goals, even when some of the goals are conflicting. Thus, a large number of GP applications have been used in decision sciences, as demonstrated by Wang and Li (), Wang et al () and Jayaraman, Colapinto, La Torre, and Malik (). The current study emphasizes that decision‐making with regard to tourism policies (especially with regard to STD) is a multicriteria‐decision making (MCDM) problem, as confirmed by Liu, Tzeng, and Lee (), Fu and Tzeng (), and Jafari‐Moghadam, Zali, and Sanaeepour ().…”

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Trade‐offs between sustainable tourism development goals: An analysis of Tibet (China)

Zhang

Yan

2018

Sustainable Development

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In the field of tourism development, decision-makers are often confronted with multiple goals regarding the tourism economy, environment and society. Taking Tibet (China) as a case study, the current paper proposes an innovative methodology for quantifying the trade-off between various tourism development goals, drawing on the Delphi method and goal programing. Our results indicate that Tibet's sustainable tourism development goals mainly consist of 10 subgoals and depend on nine decision-making variables. Depending on whether the greatest priority is given to economic, social or environmental goals, the practical implications are markedly different. We further examine changes in the subgoals and decision variables under each priority scenario. Our results allow us to recognize the key objectives involved in sustainable tourism development. This study also provides a good research framework for weighing up the priority that should be assigned to different development goals and making relevant decisions.

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Multi-criteria model for sustainable development using goal programming applied to the United Arab Emirates

Cited by 110 publications

References 39 publications

Aligning the Criteria of Green Economy (GE) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Implement Sustainable Development

Aligning the Criteria of Green Economy (GE) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to Implement Sustainable Development

DEMATEL-ANP Risk Assessment in Oil and Gas Construction Projects

Trade‐offs between sustainable tourism development goals: An analysis of Tibet (China)

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