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A Group Multicriteria Decision Model for Ranking Sustainable Cities

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Contemporary Issues in Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN 2021)

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The evaluation of cities regarding environmental and sustainable development practices should be made by a set of criteria expressing their economic, social, and environmental objectives. A ranking of sustainable cities aims to encourage the continuity of actions that contribute to the reduction of environmental problems and help cities develop sustainably. This paper proposes a group decision model for ranking sustainable cities. It is based on a multi-criteria method to support decision-makers to build individual rankings, and on a framework for choosing a voting procedure to aggregate the individual priorities into a collective ranking of sustainable cities. The applicability of the model is illustrated with a real environmental problem in a hydrographic basin in Brazil.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support of Fundação de Amparo a Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco (FACEPE) under grant: IBPG- 1292–3.08/19, the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) - Financing code 001, and the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnólogico (CNPq).

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    Emerson Rodrigues Sabino, Gabriela Silva da Silva, Danielle Costa Morais, Adiel Teixeira de Almeida & Leandro Chaves Rêgo

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Sabino, E.R., da Silva, G.S., Morais, D.C., de Almeida, A.T., Rêgo, L.C. (2021). A Group Multicriteria Decision Model for Ranking Sustainable Cities. In: Morais, D.C., Fang, L., Horita, M. (eds) Contemporary Issues in Group Decision and Negotiation. GDN 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 420. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77208-6_6

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