Sustainable Management and Multiple Attribute Decision Making

Dear Colleagues,

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, proposed by the United Nations in 2015, set 17 goals (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300) that challenge nations to act in a global partnership towards a better future. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together recent challenges and scientific developments addressing decision making within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). All these stakeholders involved in the decision-making process do not all share the same objectives. Operation research models can play a fundamental role in reaching decisions for a better future.

The objective of this Special Issue is to publish rigorous research focusing on the integration of different perspectives in decision making towards “Good Health and Well-Being”, “Sustainable Cities and Communities”, and “Responsible consumption and production” goals. Works focusing on the other goals are also welcomed.

Without being exhaustive, the topics of interest include the following fields:

• Data-driven application;
• Closed-loop supply chain modeling;
• Sustainable supply chain management;
• Tertiary logistics;
• Reverse logistics;
• Multiple stakeholder decision-making models;
• Multiobjective optimization in sustainability;
• Multiple criteria decision making in sustainability;
• Reference-point-based models;
• Group decision-making models;
• Multiobjective metaheuristics in sustainable decisions
• Goal programming;
• Sustainability indicators, including life cycle analysis.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed according to the editorial policy of Sustainability. Papers should be original, unpublished, and not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. They should be prepared according to the instructions to authors that can be found on the journal homepage.

Authors should upload their contributions using the submission site. The deadline for submissions is 31 November 2020.

Dr. Maria Isabel Gomes
Dr. Ana Pires
Guest Editors

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