An Index to Measure the Sustainable Information Society: The Polish Households Case

Wątróbski, Jarosław; Ziemba, Ewa; Karczmarczyk, Artur; Jankowski, Jarosław

doi:10.3390/su10093223

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“…It combines mangrove cover (remnant vegetation index) with scientific experts' opinions (Delphi method survey), and perceived conservation status obtained during field visits (rapid assessment questionnaire) to classify mangroves in accordance with the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems. For that purpose, the MCSI used the analytical hierarchy process to define the weight of various indicators following a multicriteria method, as suggested by other authors [31].…”

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A Practical Index to Estimate Mangrove Conservation Status: The Forests from La Paz Bay, Mexico as a Case Study

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Mangrove cover has declined significantly in recent years in tropical and subtropical areas around the world. Under this scenario, it is necessary to elaborate and implement tools that allow us to make estimations on their conservation status and improve their protection and support decision-making. This study developed an index using qualitative and quantitative data. The criterions used in the index were: (1) Remnant Vegetation Index, (2) Delphi Method Survey, and (3) Rapid Assessment Questionnaire. In turn, the weights of the criterions were defined using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP). Once the values of each criterion were obtained, the index was applied to 17 mangrove communities located in La Paz Bay, Mexico. Finally, according to their score, they were classified based on the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems. The results show that five communities were ranked in the category Minor Concern, eight in Little Threatened, one in Vulnerable, one in Endangered, and two were classified as Deficiency of Data. These results are slightly different from other studies in the region and validate this index as a proper method. Therefore, it could be applied to other sites, especially in areas with little information and/or scarce monetary resources.

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A Practical Index to Estimate Mangrove Conservation Status: The Forests from La Paz Bay, Mexico as a Case Study

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“…PROMETHEE is a family of MCDA methods that use pairwise comparison and outranking flows to produce a ranking of best decision variants [57]. The weights expressing the relative importance of each criterion need to be specified by the decision maker.…”

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Multi-criteria decision support for planning and evaluation of performance of viral marketing campaigns in social networks

2018

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The current marketing landscape, apart from conventional approaches, consists of campaigns designed especially for launching information diffusion processes within online networks. Associated research is focused on information propagation models, campaign initialization strategies and factors affecting campaign dynamics. In terms of algorithms and performance evaluation, the final coverage represented by the fraction of activated nodes within a target network is usually used. It is not necessarily consistent with the real marketing campaigns using various characteristics and parameters related to coverage, costs, behavioral patterns and time factors for overall evaluation. This paper presents assumptions for a decision support system for multi-criteria campaign planning and evaluation with inputs from agent-based simulations. The results, which are delivered from a simulation model based on synthetic networks in a form of decision scenarios, are verified within a real network. Last, but not least, the study proposes a multi-objective campaign evaluation framework with several campaign evaluation metrics integrated. The results showed that the recommendations generated with the use of synthetic networks applied to real networks delivered results according to the decision makers’ expectation in terms of the used evaluation criteria. Apart from practical applications, the proposed multi-objective approach creates new evaluation possibilities for theoretical studies focused on information spreading processes within complex networks.

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“…From among the MCDA methods used in the context of sustainability, the PROMETHEE II method is worthy of particular attention. This method (including fuzzy versions) is widely used in decision-making problems related to sustainable development [42,43] and digital sustainability [44], and some of its unique features are useful for sustainability assessment. Thanks its use of six different preference functions, PROMETHEE II makes it possible to solve a decision problem taking into account both weaker sustainability and stronger one (higher and lower compensation degrees).…”

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Towards Strong Sustainability Management—A Generalized PROSA Method

Ziemba

2019

Sustainability

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To solve decision problems related to sustainability, MCDA (Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis) methods are commonly used. However, from the methodological and practical perspective of sustainability assessment, MCDA methods have some shortcomings. To address this, the PROSA (PROMETHEE for Sustainability Assessment) method was designed. In contrast to other MCDA methods, PROSA is characterized by a lower degree of criteria compensation, thus supporting the strong sustainability paradigm. However, PROSA has some imperfections related to, among other things, its taking into consideration only basic sustainability dimensions and lack of criteria hierarchy handling. This article proposes a generalization of the PROSA method towards handling detailed criteria and their groups, while at the same time increasing the clarity of the computational procedure. Additionally, a new analytical tool called PROSA GAIA (Geometrical Analysis for Interactive Assistance) was developed, making it possible to perform descriptive analyses of decision problems. The practical advancements of the proposed method were illustrated using a reference case covering the sustainable decision making area, and were compared to other MCDA methods. The obtained research results clearly show that the generalized PROSA handles the strong sustainability paradigm better than its classical version, while at the same time providing the decision-maker with more possibilities to analyse a decision problem and its solution.

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An Index to Measure the Sustainable Information Society: The Polish Households Case

Cited by 45 publications

References 98 publications

A Practical Index to Estimate Mangrove Conservation Status: The Forests from La Paz Bay, Mexico as a Case Study

A Practical Index to Estimate Mangrove Conservation Status: The Forests from La Paz Bay, Mexico as a Case Study

Multi-criteria decision support for planning and evaluation of performance of viral marketing campaigns in social networks

Towards Strong Sustainability Management—A Generalized PROSA Method

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