TY - JOUR
T1 - A Weighted Goal Programming model for planning sustainable development applied to Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
AU - Jayaraman, Raja
AU - Colapinto, Cinzia
AU - La Torre, Davide
AU - Malik, Tufail
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support and funding from Khalifa University Internal Research Fund (KUIRF) – Grant number 210032 to conduct this research. Cinzia Colapinto gratefully acknowledges financial support from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - The United Nations agenda for sustainable development by the year 2030 proposes 17 sustainable development goals which include access to affordable, reliable and clean energy, sustained economic growth with full productive employment and, urgent action to mitigate environmental degradation. Planning for sustainable development requires integrating conflicting criteria on economy, energy, environment and social aspects. In this paper, we introduce a Weighted Goal Programming model involving criteria on the economic development (GDP), the electricity consumption, the greenhouse gas emissions, and the total number of employees to determine optimal labor allocation across various economic sectors. The proposed model is validated with data from the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates). The results of the model aim to provide empirical evidence and insights to decision makers and policy analysts in developing optimal strategies able to simultaneously satisfy energy demand, economic growth, labor development and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to achieve sustainability targets by the year 2030.
AB - The United Nations agenda for sustainable development by the year 2030 proposes 17 sustainable development goals which include access to affordable, reliable and clean energy, sustained economic growth with full productive employment and, urgent action to mitigate environmental degradation. Planning for sustainable development requires integrating conflicting criteria on economy, energy, environment and social aspects. In this paper, we introduce a Weighted Goal Programming model involving criteria on the economic development (GDP), the electricity consumption, the greenhouse gas emissions, and the total number of employees to determine optimal labor allocation across various economic sectors. The proposed model is validated with data from the six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (namely Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates). The results of the model aim to provide empirical evidence and insights to decision makers and policy analysts in developing optimal strategies able to simultaneously satisfy energy demand, economic growth, labor development and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to achieve sustainability targets by the year 2030.
KW - Energy–economic–environmental model
KW - Goal Programming
KW - Gulf Cooperation Council
KW - Multi-criteria analysis
KW - Sustainability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.04.065
DO - 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.04.065
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84964618066
SN - 0306-2619
VL - 185
SP - 1931
EP - 1939
JO - Applied Energy
JF - Applied Energy
ER -
