In the current era of sustainable development, energy planning has become complex due to the involvement of multiple benchmarks like technical, social, economic and environmental. This in turn puts major constraints for decision makers to optimize energy alternatives independently and discretely especially in case of rural communities. In addition, topographical limitations concerning renewable energy systems which are mostly distributed in nature, the energy planning becomes more complicated. In such cases, decision analysis plays a vital role for designing such systems by considering various criteria and objectives even at disintegrated levels of electrification. Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) is a branch of operational research dealing with finding optimal results in complex scenarios including various indicators, conflicting objectives and criteria. This tool is becoming popular in the field of energy planning due to the flexibility it provides to the decision makers to take decisions while considering all the criteria and objectives simultaneously. This article develops an insight into various MCDM techniques, progress made by considering renewable energy applications over MCDM methods and future prospects in this area. An extensive review in the sphere of sustainable energy has been performed by utilizing MCDM technique.

A review of multi criteria decision making (MCDM) towards sustainable renewable energy development

https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/61956/1/WRAP_Cinelli_1-s2.0-S1470160X14002647-main.pdf

Analysis of the potentials of multi criteria decision analysis methods to conduct sustainability assessment

ELECTRE: A comprehensive literature review on methodologies and applications

Benefits and well-being perceived by people visiting green spaces in periods of heat stress.

A comparative analysis for multiattribute selection among renewable energy alternatives using fuzzy axiomatic design and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

This article develops a methodological framework to provide insights regarding the suitability of multi-criteria techniques in the context of renewable energy planning. The second section presents main characteristics of the particular decision-making process. The third section presents the main multi-criteria analysis methods, and the fourth section reveals the requirements of the techniques for renewable energy planning and the main attributes under which these methods should be evaluated. Subsequently, in the fifth section, a comparative matrix is created with the various appropriate multi-criteria techniques and their performance. Finally in the sixth sec tion, we present our conclusions.

Selecting an Appropriate Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Technique for Renewable Energy Planning

http://directory.umm.ac.id/Data%20Elmu/jurnal/E/Ecological%20Economics/Vol33.Issue1.Apr2000/1024.pdf

Sustainability assessment of development scenarios: methodology and application to Thailand

Rational decision-making requires an assessment of advantages and disadvantages of choice possibilities, including non-market effects (such as externalities). This also applies to strategic decision-making in the transport sector (including aviation). In the past decades various decision support and evaluation methods have been developed in which a market evaluation played a prominent role. The intrinsic limitations of these approaches were also increasingly recognised. Gradually, a variety of adjusted multidimensional methods has been developed over the past years to complement conventional cost–benefit analysis (CBA). These methods aim to investigate and evaluate all relevant impacts of a choice possibility (e.g., project, plan, or programme) on the basis of a multitude of important policy criteria (so-called multicriteria methods). They have a particular relevance in case of non-priced or qualitative effects. There is a clear need for a systematic and polyvalent multicriteria approach to many actual planning issues, such as land use or transportation. This paper offers a new evaluation framework based on a blend of three types of approaches, viz. Regime Analysis, the Saaty method and the Flag Model. All these methods have been developed separately in the past; the paper makes an effort to offer a cohesive framework, which can be used for the e valuation of spatial-economic and environmental-economic policy issues. This new tool is tested by means of a case study on conflicting plans (and policy views) for airport expansion options in the Maastricht area in the southern part of The Netherlands.

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A multicriteria decision support methodology for evaluating airport expansion plans

Sustainable Urban Development. The Environmental Assessment

In the last decade, we have seen, next to the concept of sustainability, the upsurge of the concept of quality of life, especially in urban regions. In this respect, the relation between quality of life and urban green is regarded as a positive one, and often described as significant. In order to improve the quality of life by means of urban green, decision makers need better information regarding the quantity and quality of urban green available in their city. The aim of this paper is to develop an evaluation framework that can be used in the assessment of urban green spaces by means of criteria linked to the notion of quality of life. This evaluation framework is built upon the multicriteria analysis method Flag Model and will be demonstrated by means of a case study. In this case study, the Leipzig 'District Park Reudnitz' will be evaluated against a set of benchmark values related to policy objectives.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/116158/1/ERSA2003_424.pdf

Ron Vreeker

Papers

Selecting an Appropriate Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Technique for Renewable Energy Planning

Sustainability assessment of development scenarios: methodology and application to Thailand

A multicriteria decision support methodology for evaluating airport expansion plans

Sustainable Urban Development. The Environmental Assessment

A framework for quality of life assessment of urban green areas in Europe: an application to District Park Reudnitz Leipzig