Multicriteria Analysis of Olive Farms Sustainability: An Application of TOPSIS Models

Laura Riesgo () and Jordi Gallego-Ayala
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Laura Riesgo: University Pablo de Olavide
Jordi Gallego-Ayala: Water Regulatory Council of Mozambique

Chapter Chapter 15 in Handbook of Operations Research in Agriculture and the Agri-Food Industry, 2015, pp 327-353 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter presents an empirical application of Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) models to measure the sustainability of olive farms in Andalusia, Spain. The Analytic Hierarchy Process is used to assess the weights of sustainability dimensions and the weights of each indicator when developing the TOPSIS model. In addition, an additive approach based on weighted sum is applied to compare sustainability results of olive farms. Taking into account the weights given to each indicator and to each of the sustainability dimensions, results show that ‘intensive olive farms’ are the most sustainable olive farms.

Keywords: Analytic Hierarchy Process; Olive Tree; Economic Sustainability; Olive Grove; Agricultural Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-2483-7_15

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