Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Development

Abstract

Mapping the socio-economic and socio-communicative implications of a mega project in Europe becomes the occasion to fill a gap in the Italian national regulations on the accountability and reporting of socio-economic impacts. A monitoring project is translated into a methodological and experimental proposal to send to the Italian Ministry of the Environment. A multidisciplinary group has adopted an intervention research approach to design and test a new model that can easily be replicated for other mega projects. The multicriteria modelling and decision aiding way of thinking have been used to propose a critical reading of the model and a methodological approach to data acquisition and multicriteria aid in the monitoring process. The paper describes the experimental protocol and some methodological analyses and improvement proposals gained from the multicriteria modelling experience.