Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation for a Sustainable Economy

• Main Author: Munda, Giuseppe (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Business.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Economic policy.; Environmental economics.; Business and Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Economic Policy.; Environmental Economics.

The real world is characterized by deep complexity. May be a rather unremarkable observation, yet it has important implications on the manner policy problems are represented and decision-making is framed. Is contemporary democracy compatible with science in real-world policy-making? This book gives...

Table of Contents:

• Methodological Foundations and Operational Consequences of Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation (SMCE)
• Dealing with a Complex World: Multiple Dimensions, Values and Scales
• Operationalizing Technical and Social Incommensurability in an SMCE Framework
• Consistency in Social Multi-Criteria Evaluation
• The Issue of Consistency: Basic Methodological Concepts
• The Issue of Consistency: Basic Discrete Multi-Criteria “Methods”
• The Issue of Consistency: Lessons Learned from Social Choice Literature
• Mathematical Procedures to Search for Technical and Social Compromise Solutions
• Searching for the “Technical Compromise Solution”: Solving the Discrete Multi-Criterion Problem in an SMCE Framework
• Searching for the “Social Compromise Solution”: A Conflict Analysis Procedure for Illuminating Distributional Issues
• Conclusions.