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A Quantitative Analysis of Oil Port Sustainability Frameworks

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Following the sustainability framework that was established in the light of the interviews, this chapter embarks on the multi-criteria decision-making stage to take a deeper look at into the factors that form the framework to discover the interrelationships between the indicators of oil port sustainability. Due to the large number of confirmed indicators, this stage is needed to prioritise the factors and emphasise the most crucial ones, given that the relevant port authorities and employees may have limited power to achieve optimisation of every single indicator as a result of limited funds, operational ability, and time.

An overview of the features and expectations of the quantitative stage is provided including an introduction to the methods of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDA) that have been used and how these methods were selected to enable prioritisation of the sustainability indicators and outline the interrelationships. The methods that have been used are AHP, TISM, and MicMac.

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    Xuemuge Wang

  2. Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

    Michael Roe & Shaofeng Liu

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Wang, X., Roe, M., Liu, S. (2020). A Quantitative Analysis of Oil Port Sustainability Frameworks. In: The Sustainability of Oil Ports. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41520-4_5

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