Multi-criteria decision analysis in natural resource management: A critical review of methods and new modelling paradigms

GA Mendoza, H Martins - Forest ecology and management, 2006 - Elsevier
Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is an umbrella approach that has been applied to a
wide range of natural resource management situations. This paper has two purposes. First, it …

Making forestry decisions with multiple criteria: A review and an assessment

L Diaz-Balteiro, C Romero - Forest ecology and management, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper provides a survey of the literature on multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM)
applications to forestry problems undertaken in the last 30 years or so. More than 250 …

Bioindicators: types, development, and use in ecological assessment and research

J Burger - Environmental Bioindicators, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Government, scientists, managers, and the public are interested in assessing the health of
ecosystems. Initially ecologists concentrated on assessing condition, reproductive success …

Goal programming synthetic indicators: An application for sustainable tourism in Andalusian coastal counties

FJ Blancas, R Caballero, M González… - Ecological …, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a methodology for obtaining a synthetic indicator to facilitate decision
making in practical situations. It is based on goals provided by the users, which will be …

Development and application of a multi-attribute sustainability function for Dutch dairy farming systems

KJ Van Calker, PBM Berentsen, C Romero… - Ecological …, 2006 - Elsevier
Sustainability in dairy farming is determined by using aspects (economic, social and
ecological). Per aspect a number of measurable attributes is selected. Difficulty for …

Assessing the sustainability of water companies: A synthetic indicator approach

M Molinos-Senante, RC Marques, F Pérez, T Gómez… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Performance indicators (PIs) are essential in the benchmarking process used to rate and
rank water companies. However, a set of individual PIs does not provide a holistic …

Sustainable urban liveability: A practical proposal based on a composite indicator

B Valcárcel-Aguiar, P Murias, D Rodríguez-González - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
This article presents a proposal for a composite index to assess the degree of sustainable
urban liveability. It makes two key contributions to this field of study. The first is a proposal for …

A robust multicriteria analysis for the post-treatment of digestate from low-tech digesters. Boosting the circular bioeconomy of small-scale farms in Colombia

M Juanpera, L Ferrer-Martí, R Diez-Montero… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Low-tech digesters are sustainable technologies to produce a clean fuel (biogas), which can
be used for cooking and heating. Moreover, the degradation of organic waste in the digester …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the sustainability of rice production in Brazil and Cuba

RRM García, BF Giannetti, F Agostinho… - Journal of Agriculture …, 2021 - Elsevier
The objective of this paper is to assess the sustainability of the agricultural production chain
of rice (Oryza sativa L.) in Brazil and Cuba, using a conceptual model that considers five …

Methodology for integrated multicriteria decision-making with uncertainty: Extending the compromise ranking method for uncertain evaluation of alternatives

M Juanpera, B Domenech, L Ferrer-Martí… - Fuzzy Sets and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Making a decision usually means selecting one from different alternatives to solve a problem
according to a set of criteria. Multicriteria analysis usually offers a quantitative approach to …