ESG is probably the hottest financial and corporate topic currently. More than half of the investments from the most globalized markets claim to be sustainable, green, or to apply ESG practices. This great revolution – taking the path to the stakeholders’ capitalism – brings equally huge...

The use of renewable energies is a global strategy to mitigate the acceleration of global warming generated by industrial processes as well as a sustainable way to diversify the energy mix. The objective of this work was to identify municipalities in Colombia where residual biomass from...

Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods are crucial for addressing complex real-world problems with multiple conflicting criteria. One of the most common MCDM methods is the Weighted Aggregated Sum Product Assessment (WASPAS) method, which combines the weighted sum (WSM) and weighted...

This paper introduces the Quickest Evacuation Location problem (QELP), a novel optimisation problem aimed at supporting humanitarian operations by combining the quickest flow problem and the discrete facility location problem. Its scope falls into the field of evacuation planning and design,...

There is increasing attention on developing efficient processes including circular economy principles, and obtaining fuels from wastewater treatment feedstocks is among the most promising. As a wastewater treatment byproduct, sewage sludge is a source of lipids that can be converted to biodiesel...

Forest roads can potentially cause environmental impacts, especially related to water dynamics and sediment production. To identify critical areas for forest road allocation, we considered landscape criteria such as slope, erodibility (K), distance to accumulated water flow, and aspect. The...

In recent years, multinational corporations (MNCs) have shifted their decision-making strategies from solely focusing on economic factors to adopting a sustainable perspective that considers environmental and social impacts. Consequently, the sustainable facility location problem (SFLP) has...

This study focuses on investigating a multi-objective search allocation game problem, specifically addressing the distribution of a search budget (player 1) across a searched area to detect an evading target (player 2). The game is characterized as a two-person zero-sum game, as an optimal...