City sustainability evaluation using multi-criteria decision making with objective weights of interdependent criteria

Affiliation of Author(s):经济与管理学院

Journal:Journal of Cleaner Production

Key Words:Multicriteria decision making City sustainability Objective weights Interdependent criteria

Abstract:City sustainability evaluation can be formulated as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem
where the interactions and weights of interdependent criteria cannot be subjectively and reliably obtained. This paper develops an objective weighting approach to determining the weights of interdependent criteria in the context of MCDM. Equipped with a novel optimization model, this approach can
objectively obtain the interaction coefficients and weights of the criteria on a multi-level hierarchy. An
empirical study on the sustainability performance evaluation of 13 cities in China is conducted to
illustrate how the approach works. The result shows that the approach can reflect the performance
divergence of the cities on each criterion and ensure that the evaluation result is not affected by the
inconsistency of subjective judgments. This approach is indeed a new contribution to the methodological
development of MCDM research and to the practical application of city sustainability evaluation.

Indexed by:Journal paper

Volume:131

Page Number:491-499

Translation or Not:no

Date of Publication:2016-04-08

Included Journals:SCI

Co-author:Zhang, Ling,Zhu, Yuan-Cheng,lyz,Zhao, Wei-Wei,Xu, Jing-Juan,Chen, Hong-Yuan

Correspondence Author:zhang ling,梁彦瑜,Zhao, Wei-Wei

Date of Publication:2016-04-08