Foreword for the special issue: “Decision-Making Models for Common Goods in Environmental, Health, and Logistics Contexts”

Abstract

We present the scientific results of the call for papers in SEPS titled ’Decision-Making Models for Common Goods in Environmental, Health, and Logistics Contexts.’ As guest editors in Socio-economic Planning Sciences (SEPS), we describe the domain of our academic initiative and present the collected papers. Interestingly, our collection includes papers employing various methodologies such as multi-criteria decision making, game theory, operations research, microeconomics, computational models and insurance mathematics. We received more than fifty submissions from Asia, Europe and America. However, only thirteen papers were accepted for publication in SEPS. This demonstrates the extensive investigation of the problem of common goods and the ongoing academic debate surrounding it.