Multiple Criteria Decision Making for the Achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Systematic Literature Review and a Research Agenda

Sousa, Manuel; Almeida, Maria Fatima Ludovico de; Calili, Rodrigo Flora

doi:10.3390/su13084129

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“…As before, the UN made a strong statement on eradicating poverty in all associated research were also reviewed. Techniques such as geospatial information systems (GIS), remote sensing and multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) [44][45][46], conceptual issues such as carrying capacity, social innovation, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) [47][48][49], and other comprehensive themes can be found in the literature.…”

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The Trends and Content of Research Related to the Sustainable Development Goals: A Systemic Review

Yeh

Hsieh

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Applied Sciences

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This study employed a comprehensive systematic review of the literature (SRL) process with the Content Analysis Toolkits for Academic Research (CATAR) for conducting a bibliometric analysis of the 2814 general SDG-related papers and 92 review papers selected from the Web of Science database from 2013 to 2022. The overview analysis found that the US and UK took the lead in publication and citation. The WHO and several universities were identified as the most prominent institutes around the globe. The field distribution of the most cited papers revealed the existence of a “strong sustainability” paradigm and the importance of science and technology. A landscape of 1123 papers was included in eight clusters according to the bibliographic coupling algorithms in the Multi-stage Document Clustering (MSDC) process. These clusters were then categorized into three groups, “synergies and trade-offs”, “networking”, and “systems analysis”, demonstrated in the theme maps. As for the 92 SDG-related review papers, most were shaped based on literature analysis without specified countries. Moreover, SDG 3 was identified as that exclusively studied in most papers. The information presented is expected to help research scholars, public sectors, and practitioners monitor, gather, check, analyze, and use the growing volume of SDG-related academic articles.

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The Trends and Content of Research Related to the Sustainable Development Goals: A Systemic Review

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Hsieh

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Applied Sciences

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“…In addition, operators within different sectors of public and private organisations can better replicate and use existing MCDM models to improve their strategic decision-making processes regarding resource allocation to strategy companies associated with one or more objectives. (Sousa et al, 2021 ).…”

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Assessing Progress Towards SDGs Implementation Using Multiple Reference Point Based Multicriteria Methods: The Case Study of the European Countries

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To achieve the UN 2030 Agenda Goals, and considering their complexity and multidisciplinary, Multi-criteria analysis appears to be a suitable approach to give a true support to public decision makers in defining policy lines. This study focuses on the application of the Multiple Reference Point Weak-Strong Composite Indicators (MRP-WSCI) and its partially compensatory version (MRP-PCI), to assess, in the framework of the UN 2030 Agenda, the sustainability of the 28 members of the European Union (pre-Brexit). Countries were analyzed and compared according to their conditions and progress against the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, considering three reference years: 2007, 2012 and 2017. The analysis shows that Nordic countries reach a good level of global sustainability, with values of the indicators, W-W-W and S-W-W, between 2 and 3; while the States of east Europe, in particular Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, stay at the worst levels, having overall indicators values less than 1.5. Furthermore, the results highlight how countries in the lower group have difficulties especially in social and economic sustainability. On the other hand, states with a good overall condition record the worst results in the environmental dimension, such as the Netherlands, which shows, for the year 2017, a value for this sphere less than 2, while in the other two show a good value (over 2.5).

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“…Sustainable development is one of the crucial issues that emerged due to social, technical, and political developments in the world to address current issues in the economy, environment, and society (Emas, 2015;Strezov et al, 2017;Ecer, 2021a). Economic development has been one of the important and highly attractive aspects among all three pillars of sustainable development (Sousa et al, 2021). Since economic growth is a pivot and driver of growth in environmental and social aspects, high attention has been paid to develop economies based on sustainability practices (Gropper et al, 2015;Graafland, 2019;Assi et al, 2020;Shahnazi & Shabani, 2021).…”

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Evaluating Economic Freedom via a Multi-Criteria Merec-Dnma Model-Based Composite System: Case of Opec Countries

Ecer

Zolfani

2022

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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Economic freedom indicators create a beneficial and suitable guide and a crucial reference for investors, policymakers, lenders, and market researchers worldwide. In light of these indicators, the economic freedom performances of countries can be determined. The Heritage Foundation annually releases a ranked list of the country based on their performance in terms of fourteen economic freedom criteria with equal weights through a simple aggregation approach. According to an average-based aggregator, equal weight of economic freedom criteria and calculating rank of countries cannot be a completely reliable approach. Thus, this work establishes a composite index system in the form of a decision support system that employs the method based on the removal effects of criteria (MEREC) and the double normalization-based multi-aggregation (DNMA) to specify the economic freedom levels of the OPEC countries. MEREC obtains the importance weights of indicators without the interference of any stakeholder or decision-makers. Afterward, DNMA, as a novel ranking multi-criteria method, is applied to sort countries based on their performance against all economic freedom criteria. This is the first attempt in the literature to calculate the index of economic freedom utilizing an integrated multi-criteria decision support model. Whereas “investment freedom” is the most significant indicator of economic freedom, the UAE is in the best position in terms of economic freedom among OPEC countries. A fourphased sensitivity control is also performed so as to verify the robustness and usefulness of the developed decision tool.

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Multiple Criteria Decision Making for the Achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Systematic Literature Review and a Research Agenda

Cited by 55 publications

References 180 publications

The Trends and Content of Research Related to the Sustainable Development Goals: A Systemic Review

The Trends and Content of Research Related to the Sustainable Development Goals: A Systemic Review

Assessing Progress Towards SDGs Implementation Using Multiple Reference Point Based Multicriteria Methods: The Case Study of the European Countries

Evaluating Economic Freedom via a Multi-Criteria Merec-Dnma Model-Based Composite System: Case of Opec Countries

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