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Decision-Making in Sustainable Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 361

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Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal—Setúbal School of Technology, 2910-761 Setúbal, Portugal
Interests: automation; optimization; simulation; decision making; multiobjective optimization; post-Pareto analysis and response surface methodology
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Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable business decision-making is crucial for long-term success. It entails a proactive approach where every decision, from product development to resource management, carefully weighs its environmental, social, and economic implications.

From strategic decisions such as business location to technology selection, product quality, project portfolio selection, the value of healthcare interventions and public policies, and a myriad of management decisions in (non)industrial settings require a compromise between multiple conflicting qualitative and/or quantitative criteria. To ensure long-term sustainability, these decisions must be supported by multiple criteria decision analysis and/or multiple objective decision-making methodologies, methods, procedures, and techniques that provide a scientifically robust decision-making framework while balancing economic, environmental, and social factors.

In this Special Issue, entitled “Decision-Making in Sustainable Management”, theoretical papers and practical case studies involving multiple criteria and objectives from any research field are welcome.

Dr. João Miguel Lourenço
Guest Editor

Dr. Nuno Costa
Guest Editor Assistant

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Keywords

  • Pareto
  • optimal
  • MADM
  • MCDM
  • sustainable
  • balanced solutions
  • resources optimization
  • uncertainty
  • robustness
  • resilience

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Application of the Fuzzy MCDM Model for the Selection of a Multifunctional Machine for Sustainable Waste Management
by Yu Duan, Željko Stević, Boris Novarlić, Sarfaraz Hashemkhani Zolfani, Ömer Faruk Görçün and Marko Subotić
Sustainability 2025, 17(6), 2723; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17062723 - 19 Mar 2025
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In the sustainability concept, one of the most important areas is sustainable waste management, a system that significantly impacts both economic and social well-being. The aim of this paper is to create a unique model that can contribute to better and more promising [...] Read more.
In the sustainability concept, one of the most important areas is sustainable waste management, a system that significantly impacts both economic and social well-being. The aim of this paper is to create a unique model that can contribute to better and more promising waste management in local governments in order to increase the level of sustainability. The scientific contribution and novelty of this research is reflected in developing the Fuzzy M-FullEX (Modified Fuller’s triangle approach extended) method for defining fuzzy weight coefficients of criteria and its integration with the Fuzzy ROV (range of value) method for ranking multifunctional machines. The unique model developed in this study encompasses 10 criteria and seven alternative solutions, including the two aforementioned Fuzzy MCDM (multi-criteria decision-making) methods and the Bonferroni operator for averaging expert assessments. The results of the Fuzzy M-FullEX-Fuzzy ROV model based on the preferences of three experts define the best multifunctional machine for efficient and sustainable waste management, which is the Venieri. The rankings are as follows: M1 > M3 > M2 > M4 > M5 > M6 > M7. The obtained results were confirmed through extensive analysis (sensitivity, comparative analysis, correlation coefficients, different matrix size) and discussion. Full article
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