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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Resource efficiency has become a priority for the European agri‐food sector, yet adoption remains uneven across countries and firms. This study examines how European agri‐food small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) adopt resource efficiency practices.
Luisa Marti +3 more
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A Fuzzy Logic Application to Manage Construction-Cost Escalation
BuildingsIn large-scale projects, such as transport infrastructures, the cost-planning phase stands out as one of the most crucial for the project’s success. Cost and time overruns, during the construction phase, are often the cause of project failure.
Rubina Canesi, Chiara D’Alpaos
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SYMCA - SYstem for MultiCriteria Analysis (for Windows)
, 2008 Thesis describes an analytic tool for supporting multicriteria descrete decision making called SYMCA (SYstem for MultiCriteria Analysis), which was developed in the Microsoft Excel enviroment.
Valta, Oldřich
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NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS IN MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS
multicriteria, ordinal information, nonparametric, dominance, ranking,
Antonino Scarelli, Lorenzo Venzi
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Multicriteria Problems in Complex Systems Management
, 2017 Chapter 2 provides a general formulation of multicriteria problems. Formalization of the utility function and analysis of the utility function are considered. Nonlinear scheme of compromise and its unification is proposed.
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines patterns of socioeconomic inequality among Brazil's 26 state capitals and the Federal District, totaling 27 capitals, and assesses the discriminatory capacity of SDG‐related indicators within the country's five major regions.
Nisrin Naiel Dib Khaled +3 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Water scarcity has become a multidimensional sustainability challenge driven by climate change, demographic growth, governance quality and technological adaptation. Although desalination is increasingly recognised as a strategic response to water stress, existing assessment approaches remain fragmented and fail to evaluate its adaptive ...
B. Montano
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alternative cropping systems and practices (ACSPs) are increasingly promoted as strategies to enhance sustainability across environmental, economic, and social dimensions. Consequently, evaluating the performance of ACSPs is necessary to determine whether they effectively contribute to sustainability across these multiple dimensions.
Claudia Daniel Escurza‐González +2 more
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Safety Science and Technology, EarlyView.Consolidated FMEA–HAZOP safety management framework for WEC construction projects. ABSTRACT This study presents an advanced safety management framework for “Wave Energy Converter” (WEC) projects, addressing the inherent uncertainty, technological complexity, and environmental exposure of offshore renewable energy systems.
Panagiotis K. Marhavilas +4 more
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Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Wild animals, particularly large mammalian grazers, can influence ecosystem carbon dynamics and soil carbon sequestration. However, we lack a mechanistic understanding of how wild grazer communities influence soil carbon persistence, specifically in terms of the size of
Olli P. Hyvärinen +10 more
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