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1029. A Multicriteria Framework for Evaluating the Sustainability Performance of Local Governments: Application to French Municipalities

Invited abstract in session MA-47: MCDA applications in Engineering and Management 1, stream Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis.

Monday, 8:30-10:00
Room: 50 (building: 324)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Michalis Doumpos
School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete
2. Alexis Guyot
Audencia Business School
3. Emilios Galariotis
Technical University of Crete
4. Constantin Zopounidis
Technical University of Crete

Abstract

Sustainable development has become a central issue for policy decisions by governments and international organizations. The core framework of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development defines 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which set the basis for operationalizing specific metrics to evaluate and monitor the actions and policies that countries take to balance social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Towards achieving the goals of the UN Agenda, the role of local governments is crucial. In this context, the objective of this study is to describe the development and implementation of a multicriteria framework for assessing the performance of local governments from the perspective of the UN’s SDGs. The proposed framework is based on a comprehensive set of indicators that are aggregated through an outranking multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) approach. The MCDA approach relies on a simulation process to consider the uncertainty and vagueness in the importance of the indicators across the various SDGs. Results are presented for a large sample of French municipalities, based on the most recent available data.

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Status: accepted

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