TY - BOOK ID - 133715345 TI - Sustainability as a Multi-criteria Concept : New Developments and Applications AU - Diaz-Balteiro, Luis AU - González-Pachón, Jacinto AU - Romero, Carlos PY - 2020 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Economics, finance, business & management KW - goal programming KW - interactive methods KW - forest planning KW - Green-Tree Retention KW - climate and energy policy KW - transformation pathways KW - low carbon technologies KW - decision support KW - multi-criteria analysis KW - fuzzy PROMETHEE KW - supplier evaluation KW - supplier segmentation KW - multi-attribute utility theory KW - preference ranking organisation method for enrichment evaluation KW - quality indicator KW - food safety KW - fresh food KW - sustainable supply chain KW - multicriteria KW - circular economy KW - composite indicators KW - sustainability KW - TOPSIS KW - Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) KW - carbon neutral KW - ISO 14001 KW - economic-strategic KW - environmental sustainability KW - Costa Rica KW - criteria KW - food and biodegradable waste KW - analytic hierarchy process KW - benefit–cost analysis KW - multi-criteria decision analysis KW - waste disposal technology KW - anaerobic digestion KW - weak sustainability KW - strong sustainability KW - NAIADE KW - rural land use planning KW - forestry KW - agricultural sustainability KW - environmental performance KW - sustainability indices KW - best-worst method KW - irrigated olive groves KW - Spain KW - CoCoSo method KW - Shannon Entropy method KW - “Agenda 2030” KW - sustainable development goals KW - EU countries KW - achievement KW - assessment KW - wind energy KW - multi-objective optimization KW - weighted goal programming KW - progressive bounded constraint KW - n/a KW - benefit-cost analysis KW - "Agenda 2030" UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:133715345 AB - Sustainability is a fairly old concept, born in the 18th century in the field of forestry, within a mono-functionality perspective. The concept has considerably evolved in the last few years towards a multi-functionality context, with applications reported in practically all areas of economic interest. On the other hand, modern sustainability is a complex problem, for two reasons: a) The multiplicity of functions of a very different nature involved in the process and b) The manner in which different segments of the society or stakeholders perceive the relative importance of these functions. For the above reasons, a realistic approach for dealing with the sustainability issue requires taking into consideration multiple criteria of different nature (economic, environmental and social), and in many cases within a participatory decision making framework. This book presents a collection of papers, dealing with different theoretical and applied issues of sustainability, with the help of a modern multi-criteria decision-making theory, with a single as well as several stakeholders involved in the decision-making process. Hopefully, this material will encourage academics and practitioners to alter their research in this hot and vital topic. After all, the sustainable management of the environment and its embedded resources is one of the most important, if not the major challenge of the 21st century. ER -