ABSTRACT

Exponential increase in economic activity and high levels of consumption have hindered long-term planning and made the sustainable management across different areas more difficult. Given this context, decision problems have been complicated by an ever-greater degree of complexity, forcing decision makers to seek out new approaches and methodologies that facilitate the processes that support decision-making. MCDM and MCDA are now well-known acronyms for multiple-criteria decision-making and multiple-criteria decision analysis, respectively. Due to MCDM/A methods’ exponential growth over the past few years, this special issue sought to bring together recent developments and methodological contributions within MCDM/A for economic development, social cohesion and environmental sustainability. All contributions relate to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and were selected based on the way they relate to the Agenda’s sustainable development goals (SDGs).

摘要

经济活动的指数级增长和高消费水平阻碍了长期规划，并使跨不同地区的可持续管理更加困难。在这种情况下，决策问题变得越来越复杂，迫使决策者寻找新的方法和方法来促进支持决策的过程。现在，MCDM和MCDA分别是多准则决策和多准则决策分析的众所周知的缩写。由于MCDM / A方法在过去几年中呈指数增长，因此，本期特刊试图将MCDM / A内的最新发展和方法论方面的贡献结合在一起，以促进经济发展，社会凝聚力和环境可持续性。