Use of multicriteria analysis (MCA) for sustainable hydropower planning and management

Vassoney, Erica; Mochet, Andrea Mammoliti; Comoglio, Claudio

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.02.067

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“…Decision-makers' MCDM model is progressively used to explain sustainable construction matters [19]. Only one out of ten of the reviewed papers are measured comprehensively with limited inadequacies.…”

Section: Problems Of Construction Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model to Choose the Best Option for Sustainable Construction Management

2019

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The article briefly discusses the content and terms of construction project management. It identifies the main problems of construction management and discusses ways to solve those using multi-criteria methods. Well-performed management is one of the critical factors which leads to the success of any significant sustainable project. Construction project management consists of setting goals and defining user requirements, project constraints, and resources needed. This paper aims to create a practically useful model. The paper presents a comprehensive set of criteria, which led to the creation of a decision-making model for construction management, which was applied to a Turkish case study. The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method and the Expert Choice computer program were used for calculations.

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Section: Problems Of Construction Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model to Choose the Best Option for Sustainable Construction Management

2019

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“…Additionally, the DBMS must include illustrative examples of executions and simulations of the integrated decision-making approaches to assist newly users to get familiarized with the proposed solution. This might be of great use for academicians too in order to compare results-based on the illustrative examples -obtained from different decision-making approaches [56].…”

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“…Additionally, this paper integrates results and outcomes from some recent [1,2,6,[50][51][52][53][54][55][56] and most cited literature reviews [5, 9-11, 39, 57-60], to: (i) formulate essential evidence as well as practical and conclusive literature's support-alongside with the formulated representative sample -to this paper's subsequent insights and statements; and (ii) guarantee that no relevant articles have been excluded. Moreover, differences between previous literature reviews in this area of research and our proposed work are explained.…”

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Towards next-generation energy planning decision-making: An expert-based framework for intelligent decision support

Sellak¹,

Ouhbi²,

Frikh

et al. 2017

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Achieving sustainable energy planning and development involves complex decision-making processes. The energy planning decision-making (EPDM) field relies on a plethora of decision analysis methods that offered many solutions to process a variety of energy management and strategic decision-making problems. However, current EPDM solutions are unable to overcome the increasing complexity of strategic energy planning situations involving a large number of stakeholders in uncertain, dynamic, and distributed environments. This raises significant new challenges for researchers in both decision sciences and renewable and sustainable energy planning. On the basis of a representative assortment of peer-reviewed related literature selected by querying multiple electronic databases and indexed in Scopus and Web of Science databases domain journals over the last 12 years, this paper exhaustively highlights and discusses limitations of existing strategic EPDM solutions. The analysis is based on a classification specially developed by holistically harmonizing important domain concepts to categorize the considered representative sample of the field of interest. Additionally, this paper integrates results and conclusions from some recent and most cited literature reviews to (i) formulate essential evidence as well as practical and conclusive literature's supportalongside with the formulated representative sample -to this paper's subsequent insights and statements, and (ii) guarantee that no relevant articles have been excluded. A total of 78 related works is gathered and analyzed to provide a general view and discussion on major complexities found in classical/traditional strategic EPDM solutions and challenges for next-generation EPDM solutions. Moreover, a comparative analysis of the two solutions and a set of "quality indexes" of a next-generation EPDM solution were identified and some proposals were made to improve future applicative research. As an original result coming from the "quality indexes" identified through the review process, an intelligent expert-based framework for next-generation EPDM solutions is developed for enhanced renewable and sustainable energy planning.

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“…Of all renewable energy sources, hydropower produces the most energy, contributing about 16% to global electricity production [1,2]. Hydropower also has a positive effect on water supply, irrigation, flood control and ice prevention, if properly handled.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As for the methods of hydropower project evaluation, since the problem of conflicting objectives due to multiple purposes between environmental, social and economic sustainability considerations, multi-criteria analysis (MCA) is useful for sustainability evaluation. MCA is a method of evaluation where according to a set of evaluation criteria, different alternatives are compared and evaluated based on the purposes of different participants [2]. The authors regarded electricity supply cost as the economic indicator, the number of resettlements as the social indicator and the biodiversity index as the environmental indicator.…”

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Sustainability Risk Evaluation for Large-Scale Hydropower Projects with Hybrid Uncertainty

Tang

2018

Sustainability

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As large-scale hydropower projects are influenced by many factors, risk evaluations are complex. This paper considers a hydropower project as a complex system from the perspective of sustainability risk, and divides it into three subsystems: the natural environment subsystem, the eco-environment subsystem and the socioeconomic subsystem. Risk-related factors and quantitative dimensions of each subsystem are comprehensively analyzed considering uncertainty of some quantitative dimensions solved by hybrid uncertainty methods, including fuzzy (e.g., the national health degree, the national happiness degree, the protection of cultural heritage), random (e.g., underground water levels, river width), and fuzzy random uncertainty (e.g., runoff volumes, precipitation). By calculating the sustainability risk-related degree in each of the risk-related factors, a sustainable risk-evaluation model is built. Based on the calculation results, the critical sustainability risk-related factors are identified and targeted to reduce the losses caused by sustainability risk factors of the hydropower project. A case study at the under-construction Baihetan hydropower station is presented to demonstrate the viability of the risk-evaluation model and to provide a reference for the sustainable risk evaluation of other large-scale hydropower projects.

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Use of multicriteria analysis (MCA) for sustainable hydropower planning and management

Cited by 41 publications

References 46 publications

A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model to Choose the Best Option for Sustainable Construction Management

A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Model to Choose the Best Option for Sustainable Construction Management

Towards next-generation energy planning decision-making: An expert-based framework for intelligent decision support

Sustainability Risk Evaluation for Large-Scale Hydropower Projects with Hybrid Uncertainty

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