Sustainable communities are promoted as a desirable policy goal and, in particular, local authorities are encouraged to contribute to climate change mitigation through urban planning. Furthermore, recent research takes a broad perspective on the environmental sustainability of urban areas and considers the environmental impact of all consumption. A focus group study was conducted in Finland for...

Priority vectors in the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) are commonly estimated as constant values calculated by pairwise comparison ratios elicited from an expert. For multiple experts, or panel data, other data with varied characteristics of measurements, priority can be built functions auxiliary predictors. example, multi-person decision making, priorities obtained regression modeling demogr...

Organizations with the capacity to analyze and quickly adapt continuously changing market will have best chance of staying competitive successful in a more globalised environment. Making decisions as group involves considering input many people before making final choice. Given significance decision-making process, models can be applied provide structured method for growing efficient decision-m...