Abstract

This study addresses to rank the environmental performance of manufacturing sectors using Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluation (PROMETHEE) method which is a widely used multi-criteria decision making method for environmental management. The study focuses on 24 manufacturing sectors and 5 criteria—water usage, environmental expenditure, environmental employment, waste recover and waste density—to rank the environmental performance of the manufacturing sectors. Rankings of the manufacturing sectors are made using PROMETHEE II, which is a developed version of PROMETHEE, with three scenarios (base scenario, environmental scenario, economic scenario) obtained by different weightings of the criteria. In the analysis stage, manufacturing sectors are ranked and then environmental performance of the sectors is compared in terms of four technology levels (low technology, medium–low technology, medium–high technology and high technology) proposed by OECD. According to the results, manufacture of tobacco products is the best performing sector and manufacture of chemicals and chemical products is the worst performing sector in each scenario. Furthermore, high-technology and medium–high-technology sectors have better environmental performance than medium–low-technology and low-technology sectors in each scenario. After that, Geometrical Analysis for Interactive Aid planes were used to understand the weak and strong points of the manufacturing sectors. Better performing sectors are good at water usage, waste recover and waste density criteria, but bad at environmental expenditure and environmental employment criteria. This study closes the gap as the first study on the environmental performance of Turkish manufacturing sectors using a multi-criteria decision making method, and we hope that this study will be beneficial for the researchers in this area.

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中文翻译：

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制造业的环境绩效评估

摘要

这项研究致力于使用偏好评估组织丰富度评估法（PROMETHEE）对制造业部门的环境绩效进行评级，这是一种广泛使用的环境管理多准则决策方法。该研究集中在24个制造业部门和5个标准（用水量，环境支出，环境就业，废物回收和废物密度）上，以对制造业的环境绩效进行排名。使用PROMETHEE II（PROMETHEE的开发版本）对制造行业进行排名，并通过不同的权重标准获得了三种方案（基础方案，环境方案，经济方案）。在分析阶段，对制造业部门进行排名，然后根据经合组织提出的四个技术水平（低技术水平，中低技术水平，中高技术水平和高科技水平）对这些部门的环境绩效进行比较。根据结果​​，在每种情况下，烟草制品的制造是表现最好的部门，而化学制品和化学产品的制造是表现最差的部门。此外，在每种情况下，高技术和中高技术行业的环境绩效都比中低技术和低技术行业更好。之后，使用交互式援助飞机的几何分析来了解制造业的弱点和强项。绩效较好的部门擅长于用水，废物回收和废物密度标准，但在环境支出和环境就业标准方面却很糟糕。这项研究弥补了这一差距，这是首次使用多准则决策方法对土耳其制造业的环境绩效进行研究的方法，我们希望该研究将对该领域的研究人员有所帮助。

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