PMID- 17377731
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070904
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 0364-152X (Print)
IS  - 0364-152X (Linking)
VI  - 39
IP  - 5
DP  - 2007 May
TI  - Evaluating environmental sustainability: an integration of multiple-criteria 
      decision-making and fuzzy logic.
PG  - 721-36
AB  - While pursuing economic development, countries around the world have become aware 
      of the importance of environmental sustainability; therefore, the evaluation of 
      environmental sustainability has become a significant issue. Traditionally, 
      multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) was widely used as a way of evaluating 
      environmental sustainability, Recently, several researchers have attempted to 
      implement this evaluation with fuzzy logic since they recognized the assessment 
      of environmental sustainability as a subjective judgment Intuition. This paper 
      outlines a new evaluation-framework of environmental sustainability, which 
      integrates fuzzy logic into MCDM. This evaluation-framework consists of 36 
      structured and 5 unstructured decision-points, wherein MCDM is used to handle the 
      former and fuzzy logic serves for the latter, With the integrated 
      evaluation-framework, the evaluations of environmental sustainability in 146 
      countries are calculated, ranked and clustered, and the evaluation results are 
      very helpful to these countries, as they identify their obstacles towards 
      environmental sustainability.
FAU - Liu, Kevin F R
AU  - Liu KF
AD  - Department of Environmental Engineering, Da-Yeh University, Changhua 51542, 
      Taiwan. kevinliu@mail.dyu.edu.tw
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20070320
PL  - United States
TA  - Environ Manage
JT  - Environmental management
JID - 7703893
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollution
MH  - Biodiversity
MH  - *Conservation of Natural Resources
MH  - Decision Making
MH  - Economics
MH  - *Fuzzy Logic
MH  - Humans
MH  - Population Density
MH  - Water Pollution
EDAT- 2007/03/23 09:00
MHDA- 2007/09/05 09:00
CRDT- 2007/03/23 09:00
PHST- 2005/12/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2006/07/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2007/03/23 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/09/05 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/03/23 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s00267-005-0395-8 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Manage. 2007 May;39(5):721-36. doi: 10.1007/s00267-005-0395-8. Epub 2007 
      Mar 20.