Considerable pressure is placed on wind power in Sweden due to the country's goal of
generating 100% of its electricity from fossil free resources. The aim was to develop the …

Sustainable development is one of the most urgent challenges facing humanity. Its basic
principle is to improve people's well-being and maintain it over time. In 2015, the United …

Purpose Urban communities can be faced with many destructive events that can disrupt the
daily functioning of activities and livelihood of people living in the communities. In this …

The impact of climate change and the dynamic nature of environmental conditions
underscore the critical need to enhance resilience of systems and process safety …

This research offers a solution to a highly recognized and controversial problem within the
composite indicator literature: sub-indicators weighting. The research proposes a novel …

Composite indicators (CIs) are aggregations of indicators that aim to measure complex,
multidimensional and typically socio-economic concepts such as sustainable development …

The weighting of sub-indicators is widely debated in the composite indicator literature.
However, these weighting schemes' effects on the composite indicator's spatial dependence …

Abstract The Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) operator is a multicriteria method that has
conquered space among researchers in the composite indicators field. Typically, OWA …

The paper addresses the problem of complex socio-economic phenomena assessment
using questionnaire surveys. The data are represented on an ordinal scale; the object …

With rapid urbanization, maintaining a high quality of life (QoL) for city residents has become
a critical challenge for policy-makers and urban planners. Smart cities, leveraging advanced …