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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

So far, the elementary question of whether one country's or region's economy is moving towards sustainability or away from it cannot be answered with unanimous consensus on the 'measuring...

In my opinion the substantial meaning of multi-criteria evaluation in a social context is simply tolerance and democracy. Complex systems i.e. all real-world systems, present multiple possible...

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...