Since Kyoto Protocol, the international community is compromising itself to reduce greenhouse gases emissions. However, the implementation of energy policies, such as the construction of renewable energy installations, in many...
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SOCRATES (SOcial multi-CRiteria AssessmenT of European policieS) is a software tool explicitly designed for impact assessment problems. Three main components constitute the core of SOCRATES: multi-criteria...
This paper presents a real-world case-study with two objectives: to give a clear and simple illustrative example of application of Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) in the field of rural renewable energy...
Although the green image wind energy has, the location of windfarms is always a source of local conflicts. Opposition may depend on the extensive land use of windfarms, their...
One of the main novelties of this book is in the establishment of a clear relationship between social and public choice on one hand, and multiple criteria decision analysis on the other one. This relationship...
Sustainable development is a multidimensional concept, including socio-economic, ecological, technical and ethical perspectives. In making sustainability policies operational, basic questions to be answered are sustainability...
When a public administration wishes to implement policies, there is a previous need of comparing different options to assess their social attractiveness. A fair policy assessment process...
Condorcet consistent rules were originally developed for preference aggregation in the theory of social choice. Nowadays these rules are applied in a variety of fields such as discrete...
An ever-growing number and length of documents, number and depth of topics covered by legislation, and ever new phrases and their slowly changing meaning, these are all contributing...
The European Commission is committed to transparent and evidence based policy making throughout the policy cycle. Simulation models are increasingly used in impact assessments to provide support...