“…It is especially useful in analyzing the causeand-effect relationships between factors of the system and also to find the critical factors of a system [10]. DEMATEL has received a great deal of attention, and it is a widely used method in various fields, such as engineering [11,12], management sciences [13,14], medicine [15], COVID-19 [16][17][18], energy [19,20], urbanization [21,22], ecology [23,24], and others. It is also one of suitable methods to deal with the degree of importance of evaluation factors and to determine the cause-effect relationships between factors [25].…”