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The focus of this reprint is on environmental planning and modeling. It examines articles on green consumption, biodiversity, and household waste recycling, as well as presenting a review of the trend in publications on household waste recycling. A number of country-based applications are presented and models are used to show how multiple perspectives can be considered in policy making. This reprint will be of special interest to researchers and readers involved in sustainability management. Further, although some chapters present models to solve sustainability problems, they also share policy and decision-making frameworks for applying such models.

bibliometric analysis --- bibliometrix --- household recycling --- research trends --- science mapping --- waste management --- analytic hierarchy process (AHP) --- ecosystem management --- expert opinion --- environmental planning and modeling --- rights-based tool --- multi-criteria decision making --- optimisation --- sustainability --- SWAT model --- water quality --- hydrology --- fertilizer application --- Songkhla Lake Basin --- green consumption --- environmental change --- environmental regulation --- social welfare --- APEX --- open-source software --- QGIS --- QAPEX --- best management practice --- LDC --- n/a

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Governments must decide how to allocate limited resources for infrastructure development, particularly since financing gaps have been projected for the coming decades. Social cost-benefit analysis provides sound project appraisal and, when systematically applied, a basis for prioritization. In some instances, however, capacity and resource limitations make extensive economic analyses across all projects unfeasible in the immediate term. This paper responds to a need for expanding the available set of tools for project selection by proposing an alternative prioritization approach that is systematic and feasible within the current resource means of government. The Infrastructure Prioritization Framework is a multi-criteria decision support tool that considers project outcomes along two dimensions, social-environmental and financial-economic. When large sets of small- to medium-sized projects are proposed, resources are limited, and basic project appraisal data (but not full social cost-benefit analysis) are available, the Infrastructure Prioritization Framework can inform project selection by combining selection criteria into social-environmental and financial-economic indexes. These indexes are used to plot projects on a Cartesian plane, and the sector budget is imposed to create a project map for comparison along each dimension. The Infrastructure Prioritization Framework is structured to accommodate multiple policy objectives, attend to social and environmental factors, provide an intuitive platform for displaying results, and take advantage of available data while promoting capacity building and data collection for more sophisticated appraisal methods and selection frameworks. Decision criteria, weighting, and sensitivity analysis should be decided and made transparent in advance of selection, and analysis should be made publicly available and open to third-party review.

Banks and Banking Reform --- Communities & Human Settlements --- Decision Support --- Economic Theory & Research --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Housing & Human Habitats --- ICT Policy and Strategies --- Information and Communication Technologies --- Infrastructure --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Multi-Criteria Analysis --- Policy Planning --- Prioritization --- Project Selection --- Transport --- Transport Economics Policy and Planning

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Efficiency and productivity assessment are essential to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of countries, services and processes. In the last few years, there has been an increasing interest in the environmental effects of economic activities, and the need to assess the environmental and energy efficiency has been internationally recognized. Energy and environmental efficiency assessments of decision-making units (DMUs), such as countries, utilities, processes and services are relevant and have strong implications for companies, regulators, stakeholders, policy makers, and customers. To improve both the decision-making process and the management of DMUs, fundamental and practical knowledge about energy and environmental efficiency and productivity is essential

Research & information: general --- electricity consumption (EC) --- undesirable outputs model --- data envelopment analysis (DEA) --- efficient --- inefficient --- data envelopment analysis --- energy efficiency --- performance --- bootstrap --- water treatment --- composite indicator --- sustainability --- water utilities management --- multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) --- evaluation --- energy --- environment --- efficiency --- transport --- DEA --- TOPSIS --- transit-oriented development (TOD) --- transit efficiency --- smartcard data --- network slacks-based measure data envelopment analysis (NSBM DEA)

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The management of cultural heritage and public real-estate assets is one of the most crucial challenges concerning the sustainable use of these resources, involving dynamic methods to stimulate preservation, development, renewal, and transmission to future generations of these essential assets. The contributions presented in this book provide a rich and varied panorama of research experiences and innovative tools, capable of promoting the re-use of cultural heritage in European cities and cultural landscapes, using a circular economy logic as a model of sustainable development. From this point of view, cultural capital becomes the driver of a regeneration process on the local, urban, and metropolitan scales, in which the transversal interconnections between the production cycles of the adaptive re-use of the available heritage, both in the adaptation and in the management phase, configure a circular process of multidimensional production of value. Therefore, future territorial redevelopment projects can base their idea strength on an open system of appropriately selected social attractors, whose enhancement and use have the objective of triggering widespread regeneration effects on the whole territory of influence, receiving inducement and resources to progress.

urban heritage --- historic centre --- regulation --- sustainability --- city plan --- ambidextrous management --- creative tourism --- tourismphobia and anti-tourism movements --- social capital --- heritage --- territorial health center --- urban regeneration --- Multi-Criteria Analysis --- built cultural heritage --- values --- economic evaluation of projects --- Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) --- historical building --- economic enhancement --- integrated evaluation --- multicriteria analysis --- cultural heritage and circular economy --- financial sustainability --- Ritiro del Carmine --- built heritage sustainable reuse --- economic feasibility --- economic sustainability --- project feasibility investment profitability --- unused public buildings --- cultural heritage --- cultural tourism --- regional development --- rural areas --- bibliometric analysis --- bibliographic analysis --- risk assessment --- public investment --- time overrun --- public works --- urban governance --- new public institutional forms --- multi-sectoral collaboration --- social innovation --- MONUM --- adaptive reuse --- building rehabilitation --- impact assessment --- cultural landscape --- local governance --- immovable properties --- bathing houses --- Mar Menor --- San Javier --- artworks --- macro-elements --- vulnerability --- seismic damage --- deterioration --- web archive --- tourist flow management --- ETIS --- carrying capacity --- social impact --- social network analysis --- public real estate property --- operational protocol --- model of choice --- radar diagram --- urban art --- Neighborhood Regeneration --- Social Empowerment --- Right to the City --- Ferrol (Spain) --- Sustainable Development Goals --- SDG 11 --- heritage database --- heritage value --- heritage classification --- vocationality --- Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) --- Vesuvian Villas --- valuation --- A’WOT analysis --- multicriteria decision aid --- valorization --- management strategy --- urban sustainable development --- historical school buildings --- multi-criteria evaluation --- cultural firms --- accounting parameters --- survival analysis --- Kaplan–Meier curves --- strategic planning --- historic urban landscape --- model --- management instruments --- Novi Pazar --- Serbia --- cultural heritage conservation --- multi-criteria decision aid --- strategic assessment --- landscape management --- agriculture --- evaluation --- multi criteria decision aide (MCDA) --- rough sets --- multifunctionality --- artistic assets --- AHP --- seismic hazard --- n/a --- archaeological basins --- Web-GIS and Geodatabases --- territorial marketing --- cultural economics --- land economy --- tourism experience management --- cultural estate --- landscape heritage --- A'WOT analysis --- Kaplan-Meier curves

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Most real-world search and optimization problems naturally involve multiple criteria as objectives. Generally, symmetry, asymmetry, and anti-symmetry are basic characteristics of binary relationships used when modeling optimization problems. Moreover, the notion of symmetry has appeared in many articles about uncertainty theories that are employed in multi-criteria problems. Different solutions may produce trade-offs (conflicting scenarios) among different objectives. A better solution with respect to one objective may compromise other objectives. There are various factors that need to be considered to address the problems in multidisciplinary research, which is critical for the overall sustainability of human development and activity. In this regard, in recent decades, decision-making theory has been the subject of intense research activities due to its wide applications in different areas. The decision-making theory approach has become an important means to provide real-time solutions to uncertainty problems. Theories such as probability theory, fuzzy set theory, type-2 fuzzy set theory, rough set, and uncertainty theory, available in the existing literature, deal with such uncertainties. Nevertheless, the uncertain multi-criteria characteristics in such problems have not yet been explored in depth, and there is much left to be achieved in this direction. Hence, different mathematical models of real-life multi-criteria optimization problems can be developed in various uncertain frameworks with special emphasis on optimization problems.

multiple-criteria decision-making --- underground mines --- mining methods --- expert knowledge --- failure mode and effects analysis --- solar panel systems --- step-wise weight assessment ratio analysis --- grey relational analysis --- Z-number theory --- B2C e-commerce factors --- website --- MCDM --- Fuzzy AHP --- TOPSIS-Grey --- China --- IoT --- platform selection --- multi criteria decision analysis (MCDA) --- AHP --- PROMETHEE-II --- Industry 4.0 --- data envelopment analysis --- conjoint analysis --- experimental design --- criteria importance --- weight restrictions --- subjective and objective teacher efficiency --- multi-objective planning --- reverse supply chain --- robust optimization --- uncertainty --- meta-heuristic algorithm --- steel making industry --- fuzzy PIPRECIA --- fuzzy EDAS --- railway --- multi-criteria decision-making --- transport policy --- Six Sigma (6σ) --- DMAIC --- vehicle fleet --- optimization --- text mining --- Multi-Attribute Decision Making (MADM), criteria selection --- weighting --- Prospective MADM --- Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) --- SIMUS --- decision tree --- transport plan --- Laplace’s criterion --- Hurwitz’s criterion --- q-rung orthopair fuzzy numbers --- q-rung orthopair fuzzy prioritized weighted average operator --- q-rung orthopair fuzzy prioritized weighted geometric operator --- green supply chain management --- fuzzy theory --- sustainable development --- SCOR model --- FAHP --- PROMETHEE II --- textile and garments industry --- sustainable supplier selection --- MCDA --- efficiency --- DEA --- SFA --- classification --- dimensionality reduction --- q-ROFNs --- Einstein operators --- prioritized aggregation operators --- multi-criteria group decision making --- hazardous materials --- vehicle route model (VRP) --- uncertainty theory --- chance constrained programming model --- hybrid intelligent algorithm --- linear Diophantine fuzzy set --- linear Diophantine fuzzy soft rough set --- soft rough linear Diophantine fuzzy set --- upper reduct and lower reduct --- core set --- multi-criteria decision making --- q-Rung orthopair fuzzy sets --- geometric aggregation operators based on generalized and group-generalized parameters --- water loss management --- decision making --- intuitionistic fuzzy sets --- the COMET method --- service quality --- fuzzy set --- Jensen–Shannon divergence --- shapley function --- TODIM --- port-hinterland transportation system --- bi-objective programming --- intermodal transportation --- carbon emissions --- uncertain demand --- distributionally robust --- chance constraint --- Yangtze River Economic Belt --- multi-criteria decision-analysis --- MCDA benchmark --- normalization --- entropy --- decision-making methods --- multi-criteria problems --- evolutionary algorithms --- machine learning --- fuzzy logic --- uncertain data --- consistency weights --- fuzzy preference relation (FPR) --- hesitant fuzzy preference relation (HFPR) --- Łukasiewicz consistency --- normal hesitant fuzzy preference relation (NHFPR) --- multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) --- outsourcing provider --- DEMATEL --- CRITIC --- TOPSIS --- comparison measure --- representation --- disjoint --- multiplicative preference relation (MPR) --- group decision-making (GDM) --- incomplete fuzzy preference relation (IFPR) --- TL-consistency --- cubic m-polar fuzzy set --- Dombi’s operations --- cubic m-polar fuzzy aggregation operators with P-order (R-order) --- SIR technique --- complex networks --- social networks --- viral marketing --- information propagation --- crisp probability --- interval probability --- influence diagrams --- circuit breakers --- granular computing --- interval-valued --- intuitionistic fuzzy set --- multiple granulation --- ordered information system