Rough sets based Ordinal Priority Approach to evaluate sustainable development goals (SDGs) for sustainable mining
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Author(s)
Deveci, Muhammet
Brito-Parada, Pablo R
Pamucar, Dragan
Varouchakis, Emmanouil A
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been adopted by countries and companies, including mining companies around the world. The aim of this study is to investigate the degree of importance of the seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs) on sustainable mining using a rough sets based decision making approach. This novel approach consists of three consecutive stages, namely a questionnaire (survey), data analyses, and SDGs classification. Firstly, a survey is conducted to receive a response from internationally experts across different countries. Each participant is asked to evaluate the importance of each SDG. Secondly, the analyses are carried out to make a distinction among groups of participants who respond similarly and discover viewpoints from the industry, academia, and non-governmental organizations. Finally, the degree of importance of each SDG for sustainable mining is found using a novel decision making approach including Ordinal Priority Approach (OPA) based on rough sets. The survey of the results indicated that for all the participants of the survey, independently of their background, the most important SDG for sustainable mining was “SDG8: Decent work and economic growth”, while the one perceived as the least important was “SDG14: Life below water”. The main objective of SDG8 is to promote economic growth through job opportunities and decent work for all. This in turn leads to a more sustainable, long-term economic growth. While all SDGs play an important role, the proposed rough sets based decision making method provided a rational and objective evaluation performance of their perceived priority in the mining sector.
Date Issued
2022-12
Date Acceptance
2022-10-03
Citation
Resources Policy, 2022, 79, pp.1-14
ISSN
0301-4207
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
1
End Page
14
Journal / Book Title
Resources Policy
Volume
79
Copyright Statement
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Subjects
Decision support system
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
Environmental Studies
INDICATORS
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Multi-criteria decision making
Rough sets
Science & Technology
Sustainable development goals
Sustainable mining
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
103049
Date Publish Online
2022-10-18