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Sustainable development and morphological analysis: a multi-level strategic planning for the transport sector

Maria De Fátima Teles and Jorge Freire De Sousa

International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences, 2021, vol. 13, issue 4, 350-364

Abstract: Societies face complex challenges, which require a harmonious transition to future patterns. A strategic response to reconfigure society should assure the provision of critical resources and the resilience of the socio-technical systems in the long-term. The implementation of a new dominant technology and paradigm in the transport context is a complex process: it is multidimensional, requires seamless integration of various features and entails trade-offs in the decision-making process. The authors use general morphological analysis (GMA) as a theoretical framework that supports decision making in the transition management of transport to a new powertrain technology. This example is just an illustration of a broader representation of all the possible solutions of a large-scale problem as it is the case of any multi-level process of governance, leading to the pursuit of new paradigms. The originality of the paper lies on using a GMA that addresses sustainable challenges in a transport system from a multi-level perspective.

Keywords: sustainable development; multi-level process; transport; integrated decision-making; general morphological analysis; GMA. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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