Avaliação de Políticas Sustentáveis

Sustainability policy evaluation and assessment seeks to answer the key question, sustainability of what whom? Consequently, issues are multidimensional in nature feature a high degree conflict, uncertainty complexity. Social multi-criteria (SMCE) has been explicitly designed for public policies; it builds on formal modelling techniques whose main achievement is fact that use different criteria translates directly into plurality values dimensions underpinning process. SMCE aims at being inter/multi-disciplinary (with respect technical team), participatory community) transparent. can help deal with three types sustainability-related issues: 1) epistemological (human representation given problem necessarily reflects perceptions, interests those structuring problem); 2) complexity (the existence levels scales which hierarchical system be analyzed implies unavoidable non-equivalent descriptions both space time); 3) mathematical manipulation rules relevant information (compensability versus non-compensability, preference intensities preference, mixed criterion scores, weights as trade-offs importance coefficients, choice proper ranking algorithm). This paper focuses these provides an overview approaches them.