Table 1.
Overview of group decision making MCDA frameworks used in climate policy-related studies. Italic formatting indicates studies with multiple frameworks, either in different stages of the analysis or in a comparative manner. Asterisk (*) indicates sensitivity analysis.
| Methodological Approach | Study | Type of Evaluation Criteria |
Sector of human activity | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial | Energy | Env/mental | Regulatory | Societal | Tech/cal | |||
| AHP | (AlSabbagh et al., 2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Transport | ||
| (Biloslavo and Dolinšek, 2010) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |
| (Biloslavo and Grebenc, 2012) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |
| (Blechinger and Shah, 2011)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| (Borges and Villavicencio, 2004) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Agriculture; Power; Transport | |||
| (Büyüközkana and Karabulutb, 2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||||
| (Cowan et al., 2010)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |||
| (Javid et al., 2014) | ✓ | ✓ | Transport | |||||
| (Konidari and Mavrakis, 2007) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | All sectors | ||||
| (Montanari, 2004) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||||
| (Paul et al., 2015) | ✓ | ✓ | Transport | |||||
| (Rojas-Zerpa and Yusta, 2015) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| (Shiau and Liu, 2013) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Transport | |||
| (Streimikiene et al., 2016)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| (Talaei et al., 2014)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |||
| (Yap and Nixon, 2015)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| ANP | (Büyüközkan and Güleryüz, 2017)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |
| (Sakthivel et al., 2015) | ✓ | ✓ | Transport | |||||
| (Ulutaş, 2005) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |
| ARAS | (Streimikiene et al., 2016)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |
| DEMATEL | (Büyüközkan and Güleryüz, 2017)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |
| ELECTRE | (Georgopoulou et al., 2003) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |||
| (Karakosta et al., 2009) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| (Michailidou et al., 2016)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Industry | ||||
| Fuzzy AHP | (Heo et al., 2010) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| (Kaya and Kahraman, 2011)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |||
| (Luthra et al., 2015)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |||
| (Ren and Lützen, 2015)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Industry; Transport | |||
| Fuzzy ANP | (Promentilla et al., 2014) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| Fuzzy MCDM | (Chang et al., 2012) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Buildings; Power; Transport | ||
| (Cutz et al., 2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |||
| Fuzzy PROMETHEE | (Chen and Pan, 2015) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Buildings | |||
| Fuzzy TOPSIS | (Jun et al., 2013) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Buildings | |||
| (Kaya and Kahraman, 2011)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |||
| (Onu et al., 2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Environment; Power | ||
| Fuzzy VIKOR | (Vahabzadeh et al., 2015) | ✓ | Industry | |||||
| MAUT | (Konidari and Mavrakis, 2007) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | All sectors | |||
| MOORA | (Paul et al., 2015) | ✓ | ✓ | Transport | ||||
| Multi-Objective Goal Programming | (Cowan et al., 2010) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| Multi-Objective Linear Programming | (Ribeiro et al., 2013)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |
| Point Allocation Method | (Xu et al., 2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| PROMETHEE | (Borges and Villavicencio, 2004) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Agriculture; Power; Transport | ||
| (Doukas et al., 2006) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| (Ghafghazi et al., 2010) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Buildings | |||
| (Paul et al., 2015) | ✓ | ✓ | Transport | |||||
| (Tsoutsos et al., 2009)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| (Vaillancourt and Waaub, 2004)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Industry | |||
| (Xu et al., 2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
| SMART | (Blechinger and Shah, 2011)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |
| (Konidari and Mavrakis, 2007)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | All sectors | ||||
| TOPSIS | (Brand and Missaoui, 2014)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| (Büyüközkan and Güleryüz, 2017)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| (Jun et al., 2013) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Buildings | ||||
| (Montanari, 2004) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||||
| (Mourhir et al., 2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Environment | ||
| (Sakthivel et al., 2015) | ✓ | ✓ | Transport | |||||
| UTASTAR | (Papapostolou et al., 2016) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power |
| (Papapostolou et al., 2017) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |
| VIKOR | (Büyüközkan and Karabulut, 2017)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | |||
| (Ren and Lützen, 2015)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Industry; Transport | |||
| (Rojas-Zerpa and Yusta, 2015) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| (Sakthivel et al., 2015) | ✓ | ✓ | Transport | |||||
| Weighted Sum Method | (de Bruin et al., 2009) | ✓ | ✓ | All sectors | ||||
| (Jun et al., 2013) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Buildings | ||||
| (Ribeiro et al., 2013)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||
| (Roth et al., 2009)* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Power | ||||