1029. The role of consensus-reaching for aggregating stakeholder groups’ preferences in multi-criteria group decision-making
Invited abstract in session WD-8: Real-life applications of multi-criteria and multi-group decision making: practical issues, opportunities and challenges, stream Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding.
Wednesday, 14:30-16:00Room: Clarendon SR 2.08
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Klaas De Brucker
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| Faculty of Economics and Business - Research Centre for Economics and Corporate Sustainability (ECON-CEDON), Campus Brussel, KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Belgium | |
| 2. | River Huang
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| Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis (LEA), Paul Scherrer Institute | |
| 3. | Cathy Macharis
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| BUTO-Mobilise, Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
Abstract
Actively involving stakeholder groups in multi-criteria group decision-making (MCGDM) frameworks can help policymakers understand the particular preferences of such stakeholder groups and get support from them. This is particularly important for complex projects with a large scope, such as those related to transport, the environment, or any other projects that affect the wider public and where the support from critical stakeholder groups is essential to successful project implementation. As stakeholder groups represent an extra layer in the MCGDM framework and since they often develop their own set of criteria, relevant to their own specific point of view, the question then arises how to bring together or aggregate these stakeholder viewpoints. In our paper, we discuss three different approaches for bringing together (conflicting) stakeholder points of view. We contrast approaches that rely on the use of inter-stakeholder weights with a more innovative approach (developed by ourselves) that does not explicitly use such weights but mainly focuses on the role of consensus-reaching in aggregating stakeholder groups’ preferences. Finally, we illustrate these approaches using a real-life case study related to the appraisal of construction logistics scenarios in the municipality of Anderlecht, in the Brussels Capital Region of Belgium.
Keywords
- Multi-Objective Decision Making
- Sustainable Development
- Analytic Hierarchy Process
Status: accepted
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