Sustainability impacts: multicriteria decision-making and weighting factors

Maurizio Cellura, Anna Irene De Luca, Nathalie Iofrida and Marina Mistretta

Chapter 17 in Handbook on Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment, 2024, pp 232-251 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Sustainability decision-making is a complex process, because of the interdisciplinary and multidimensional characteristics of the topic, entailing factors such as (i) uncertainty, because knowledge on each sustainability dimension is often scarce and dynamic, and (ii) subjectivity, because personal judgement and expertise can be very different. Therefore, multicriteria approaches and life cycle methodologies can be useful for each other: life cycle tools can provide sustainability multicriterial analyses with detailed information on how to reduce impacts and prevent burden shifts, while multicriterial methods can help decision makers in selecting the most effective alternatives according to stakeholders’ concerns, interests and values and in overcoming trade-offs among the different dimensions of sustainability. In this chapter, a brief review of the literature shows how the integration of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment and Multicriteria Decision Analyses (MCDAs) has been done in the most recent publications, and suggestions to ease this integration are provided for scholars and practitioners.

Keywords: Business and Management; Development Studies; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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