Multi-criteria decision-making in the evaluation of environmental quality of OECD countries: The entropy weight and VIKOR methods
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to use multi-criteria decision-making methods to assess environmental quality of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Design/methodology/approach - Weights of criteria are determined by means of entropy weight method. VIK...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:eme:ijoesp:ijoes-06-2019-0101 2024-04-14T08:13:46+00:00 Multi-criteria decision-making in the evaluation of environmental quality of OECD countries: The entropy weight and VIKOR methods Van Thac Dang Wilson V.T. Dang http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/IJOES-06-2019-0101?utm_campaign=RePEc&WT.mc_id=RePEc unknown http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/IJOES-06-2019-0101?utm_campaign=RePEc&WT.mc_id=RePEc article ftrepec 2024-03-19T10:39:59Z Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to use multi-criteria decision-making methods to assess environmental quality of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Design/methodology/approach - Weights of criteria are determined by means of entropy weight method. VIKOR method is used to rank different OECD countries based on their environmental quality. Findings - The results show the best and the worst environmental quality of different OECD countries. The top five countries of environmental quality are Spain, Israel, Belgium, Japan and the USA. These countries have the best quality of environment. By contrast, the worst five countries of environmental quality are Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Chile. Originality/value - The findings have implications regarding environmental quality. The results suggest that governments should engage in policy-making that improves their environmental quality. Specifically, those having poor quality of environment should protect the environment and reduce the negative impact on environment. For example, reduce emission of CO Environmental quality, Multi-criteria decision-making, Entropy weight method, VIKOR method, OECD countries Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Canada New Zealand |
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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to use multi-criteria decision-making methods to assess environmental quality of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. Design/methodology/approach - Weights of criteria are determined by means of entropy weight method. VIKOR method is used to rank different OECD countries based on their environmental quality. Findings - The results show the best and the worst environmental quality of different OECD countries. The top five countries of environmental quality are Spain, Israel, Belgium, Japan and the USA. These countries have the best quality of environment. By contrast, the worst five countries of environmental quality are Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Chile. Originality/value - The findings have implications regarding environmental quality. The results suggest that governments should engage in policy-making that improves their environmental quality. Specifically, those having poor quality of environment should protect the environment and reduce the negative impact on environment. For example, reduce emission of CO Environmental quality, Multi-criteria decision-making, Entropy weight method, VIKOR method, OECD countries |
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Van Thac Dang Wilson V.T. Dang Multi-criteria decision-making in the evaluation of environmental quality of OECD countries: The entropy weight and VIKOR methods |
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Multi-criteria decision-making in the evaluation of environmental quality of OECD countries: The entropy weight and VIKOR methods |
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Multi-criteria decision-making in the evaluation of environmental quality of OECD countries: The entropy weight and VIKOR methods |
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Multi-criteria decision-making in the evaluation of environmental quality of OECD countries: The entropy weight and VIKOR methods |
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Multi-criteria decision-making in the evaluation of environmental quality of OECD countries: The entropy weight and VIKOR methods |
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Multi-criteria decision-making in the evaluation of environmental quality of OECD countries: The entropy weight and VIKOR methods |
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multi-criteria decision-making in the evaluation of environmental quality of oecd countries: the entropy weight and vikor methods |
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