Journal
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
Volume 189, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2021.116090
Keywords
Uncertainty decision processes; RGDLE system; Hesitant Fermatean fuzzy set; Level Difference Maximization Method; HFFS-MULTIMOORA
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61973145]
- Key Science and Technology Fund of Education Department of Jiangxi Province [GJJ180247]
- Graduate Student Innovation Special Foundation of Jiangxi province [YC2021-B125]
- 16th Student Research Foundation of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics [20210915081313460]
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This paper develops an evaluation framework for green development level based on existing literature, and successfully applies it to five provinces and municipalities along the Yangtze River Economic Zone in China. The research results reveal the ranking of green development levels for each province and municipality.
Economic green development has received increase attention. However, the uncertainty decision processes in the development of green economic growth has brought challenges to the evaluation, which leads to the evaluation index system has not yet reached a consensus. In order to solve the above problems, this paper, based on the established and developed regional green development level evaluation (RGDLE) system in existing literature, employed improved MULTIMOORA group decision model under the hesitant fuzzy Fermatean environment (HFFS-MULTIMOORA) and an innovative weighting method to develop the RGDLE process. This evaluation framework describes the complexity of the RGDLE process. The Level Difference Maximization Method to combine the average-based subjective weight-determining method and the Shannon-entropy-based objective weight-determining method is developed to fit RGDLE problems with cognitive complex information. This innovative index system and HFFS-MULTIMOORA method based group decision-making framework is further applied to evaluate the green development level of five provinces and municipalities along the Yangtze River Economic Zone, China. Results showed the optimal green development levels ranking of the five alternative provinces and municipalities of the Yangtze River Economic Zone, China. Moreover, the effectiveness and feasibility of the model framework was verified by robustness and comparative analysis between the existing method. This paper contributes not only to the literature on RGDLE but also to giving decision-makers and researchers inside and outside China valuable inspiration and references for improving the evaluation efficiency and giving policy suggestions.
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