Abstract
This article aims to support decision-making in sustainable development context, which must guarantee a long-term balance between environmental integrity, social equality and economic efficiency. It proposes a temporal outranking method, named MUPOM (MUlti-criteria multi-Period Outranking Method), which accommodates the requirements of sustainable development and demonstrates how the paradigm behind outranking methods can be of use in processing temporal impacts of decisions. The proposed method is structured in four phases: multi-criteria aggregation, temporal aggregation, exploitation and follow-up. MUPOM considers conflicting and incommensurable criteria, is based on pairwise comparison, is semi-compensatory, and makes use of thresholds. It provides valuable contributions for researchers and practitioners dealing with decision-making in SD context. The proposed method was applied on a case study to select the best compromise sustainable forest management option, while considering the environmental impacts, the economic benefits and decision-maker preferences. Results show the applicability of the method for real-world problems and its valuable outcomes.
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