Sustainable and renewable Energy: An overview of the application of multiple criteria decision making techniques and approaches

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 13947-13984

  Mardani, Abbas ^a   Jusoh, Ahmad ^a   Zavadskas, Edmundas Kazimieras ^b   Cavallaro, Fausto ^c   Khalifah, Zainab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decision making; Environmental systems; MCDM; Renewable energy; Sustainable energy

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PLANNING METHOD; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 84949575434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su71013947     Document Type: Review

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