“…Environmental, economic and social studies that constitute the basic dimensions of sustainable development are evaluated under this study in terms of sustainable development through AHP and SWOT analyses. There is a substantially broad literature on broadening the scope of SWOT-AHP based on sustainable development, economy, industry, supply chain and selection practices in terms of economic and social sustainability (Awasthi et al, 2018 ; Bas, 2013 ; Calabrese et al, 2019 ; Centobelli et al, 2017 ; Dania et al, 2018 ; Govindan et al, 2014 , 2020a , 2020b , 2020c ; Kim & Park, 2019 ; Lenis Escobar et al, 2020 ; Mangla et al, 2018 ; Mani et al, 2014 ; Raza et al, 2018 ; Tavana et al, 2016 ). There have been numerous attempts elaborating on the AHP and SWOT connection within the scope of environmentally sustainable development such as the selection of potential areas and suitable routes in various areas according to geographic features (Coruhlu et al, 2020 ; Datta, 2020 ; De La Vega et al, 2018 ; Kumari & Pandey, 2020 ), sustainable environmental relationship and appropriate agricultural land location selection (Feng, 2020 ; Sarı & Koyuncu, 2021 ), sustainable energy and environmental impact assessment (Anser et al, 2020 ; Ervural et al, 2018 ; Solangi et al, 2019 ; Wang et al, 2020 ), natural resource sustainability (Kajanus et al, 2012 ), sustainable tourism (Asadpourian et al, 2020 ; Fabac & Zver, 2011 ; Kişi, 2019 ; Najafinasab et al, 2020 ; Navarro-Martínez et al, 2020 ; Zorlu & Yılmaz, 2020 ) and residential areas sustainability (Esmaeilzadeh et al, 2020 ; Fatourehchi & Zarghami, 2020 ; Kramar et al, 2019 ).…”