Eliciting Preferences on Multiattribute Societies with a Choquet Integral

Meyer, Patrick; Ponthière, Grégory

doi:10.1007/s10614-009-9196-0

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“…generalized mean aggregation]. For the derivation of questionnaires to obtain decisionmaker preferences on interactions between the well-being (sustainability) indicators, interested readers are referred to Meyer and Ponthiere (2011), Garmendia and Gamboa (2012), Rowley et al (2012), Carraro et al (2013), Merad et al (2013), Pinar et al (2014), Bertin et al (2018) among many others. In this paper, we obtain overall regional well-being outcomes in three categories (i.e., material, personal and community) by allowing different degrees of complementarity (substitution) between well-being dimensions by choosing specific β parameters while keeping the weights between the dimensions equal.…”

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Multidimensional Well-Being and Inequality Across the European Regions with Alternative Interactions Between the Well-Being Dimensions

Pinar

2018

Soc Indic Res

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This paper uses recent multidimensional well-being measurements to examine multidimensional well-being and inequality across the European regions in 2000 and 2014 with the use of eleven well-being indicators from the OECD Better Life Index. We use generalized mean aggregation method with alternative parameters to allow different substitutability and complementarity levels between well-being dimensions, which range between perfect substitutability and some degree of complementarity between the dimensions, to examine well-being and inequality across the European regions. Accounting for the interactions between the well-being dimensions matters for the multidimensional well-being and inequality across the European regions. The results show that the multidimensional well-being across the European regions are relatively lower when the dimensions are more seen as complements compared to the case when they are considered to be perfect substitutes. Furthermore, there is also a higher degree of multidimensional inequality across the European regions when the dimensions are considered to have some complementarity. Changes in well-being dimensions between 2000 and 2014 indicates that multidimensional well-being improved and inequality decreased in the personal and community well-being categories, but remained unchanged in material well-being category across the European regions irrespective of interaction levels between well-being dimensions. Policy implications of these multidimensional well-being indices are also evaluated by using these indices to determine the eligible regions for the European Union structural funds where the number eligible regions shows some variation depending on whether the dimensions are perfect substitutes or more of complements.

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Multidimensional Well-Being and Inequality Across the European Regions with Alternative Interactions Between the Well-Being Dimensions

Pinar

2018

Soc Indic Res

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“…Specifically, it allows us to obtain the preferences of experts based on their personal assessments about the sustainability of different hypothetical societies. In a recent application of the Choquet integral in a multi-attribute assessment of well-being, Meyer and Ponthière (2011) applied such a methodology and found the existence of complementarities and redundancies between dimensions of 1 Where 0 represents "very bad" outcome, 1 represents "very good" outcome for any indicator which is increasing in a social 'good'. standard of living, as well as identifying a strong heterogeneity in individual preferences.…”

Section: Multi-attribute Aggregationmentioning

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Constructing the FEEM sustainability index: A Choquet integral application

Cruciani

Giove

Pinar

et al. 2014

Ecological Indicators

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This paper presents the development of the FEEM Sustainability Index (FEEM SI), a composite index including 19 different indicators grouped in the three classical pillars of sustainability -economic, social and environmental. We present the relevance of multi-attribute aggregation methodologies when dealing with such complex concepts and apply an aggregation methodology used for this case study: the Choquet integral operator. First, we normalize each sustainability indicator with the use of a benchmarking procedure with a smooth target of sustainability. We then develop an aggregation tree of sustainability criteria and a questionnaire to measure the values that experts attribute to individual sustainability criteria and their interaction. This survey suggests that a majority of experts consider sustainability criteria as complementary to each other. After combining the preferences of different experts to establish a consensus, we construct the FEEM SI using the Choquet integral aggregation procedure. The results for sustainability levels show that countries that are ranked at higher (lower) positions are those that have better (worse) outcomes in at least in two final pillars, respectively. Finally, we conduct a robustness analysis by repeating the aggregation procedure with different convex combinations of experts' preferences. The results indicate that, while sustainability levels of countries do vary with the expert preferences, countries' respective rankings remain mainly the same, irrespective of the combination of experts' preferences.

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“…Several applications of the Choquet integral in MCDA exist in the literature, where it is possible to find a wide range of experimentations (Grabisch and Labreuche, ). This framework has been applied for addressing logistic processes (Demirel et al ., ; Berrah and Cliville, ; Tsai and Lu, ), economic evaluation (Heilpern, ), social analysis (Meyer and Ponthiere, ), whereas applications in sustainability assessment and environmental analysis are less consolidated (FEEM, ; Giove et al ., ).…”

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Assessing Different Possibilities for the Reuse of an Open‐pit Quarry Using the Choquet Integral

Bottero

Ferretti

Pomarico

2013

Multi Criteria Decision Anal

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Multiple criteria decision analysis is a valuable and increasingly widely-used tool to support decision-making processes where there is a choice to be made between different options. This approach is particularly useful in the context of sustainability assessment where a complex and interconnected range of environmental, social and economic issues must be taken into consideration and where objectives are often competing.It has been generally agreed that when dealing with sustainability issues, neither an economic reductionism nor an ecological one is possible. Because in general, economic sustainability has an ecological cost, and because ecological sustainability has an economic cost, an integrative framework such as multicriteria evaluation is needed for tackling sustainability issues properly. In this sense, the analysis of the possible interactions among the elements is of particular importance for assessing the sustainability of a certain transformation.Within this context, a very important role is played by the 'non-additive measurement theory', that makes use of the Choquet integral. This last represents the generalization of the weighted average method and provides a computational structure for aggregating information, taking into account interactivity between criteria.The present paper proposes a multicriteria approach that is able to support decision makers in the choice of the best solution for the reuse of an abandoned open-pit quarry. Five alternative options have been compared based on different indicators that have been aggregated using the Choquet integral in order to obtain the global sustainability level of each solution and to better highlight the trade-offs between the aspects involved in the decision.

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Eliciting Preferences on Multiattribute Societies with a Choquet Integral

Abstract: Standards of living, Indicators, Measurement, Multiattribute value theory, Choquet integral, C44, D69, I31,

Cited by 24 publications

References 29 publications

Multidimensional Well-Being and Inequality Across the European Regions with Alternative Interactions Between the Well-Being Dimensions

Multidimensional Well-Being and Inequality Across the European Regions with Alternative Interactions Between the Well-Being Dimensions

Constructing the FEEM sustainability index: A Choquet integral application

Assessing Different Possibilities for the Reuse of an Open‐pit Quarry Using the Choquet Integral

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