Stanislav E. Shmelev

TL;DR: Understanding the strengths and weaknesses inherent in the methods utilised has suggested that a relatively affordable and easy to use tool can be developed for strategic analysis of the municipal solid waste management system in a region, giving useful support to the decision-maker regarding the potential development paths and trade-offs between economic and environmental performance of a proposed Waste Management System.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the issue of sustainability at the macro scale employing multi-criteria decision aid (MCDA) methods and evaluated the effectiveness of the NAIADE method for sustainability assessment in three different settings: long-term from 1960 to 2003, medium-term, 1970-1995, and short-term with varying numbers of criteria.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-criteria analysis of alternative combinations of renewable energy technologies to meet a sustainable energy supply is proposed, which takes into account a range of criteria to reflect relevant environmental, social and economic considerations, capture the value of diversity, and reflect innovative potential and learning capacity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed an econometric approach to analyse the effectiveness of energy and carbon taxes in Sweden, the country which was one of the first to introduce a CO2 tax as well as an extensive environmental tax reform.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered a database of over 90 global cities including London, New York, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Moscow, Beijing, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo exploring linkages between different sustainability and smart city dimensions.