This week we have a look at two major methods for integrating different perspectives (also from different disciplinary contexts) to obtain a common assessment.
I. Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)
Also known as Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) this assessment method includes several methods rooted on approaches from statistics and mathematics that allows evaluate conflicting criteria and come to a common evaluation.
In this video you can find a detailed description of some of its methods and algorithms (particularly those that can be implemented manually in a programming software by yourself) and their main principles. Here go the slides.
Open-source tools for MCDM analysis
pyrepo-mcda: python 3.0 based library for performing MCDM analysis. Includes different normalization, transformation and aggregation methods. This is a consolidated library with good documentation.
Additional Literature:
AHP: Eigenvalue and consistency: [1] and [2]
Here you can find a really nice report from IRENA using MCDA for ranking GIS-zones in Africa for identifying clean energy corridors. Have a good read!
II. Discourse Analysis
This video is an introduction to the method of discourse analysis. It presents one possible concretization of that method and is based on the analysis performed in Reference #1 of the below listed literature. Here go the slides
Additional literature:
- Drexler et al. Framing the mobility transition: public communication of industry, science, media, and politics in Germany. Energy, Sustainability and Society. 10.1186/s13705-022-00374-0
- Discourse analysis of H2-vehicles (Basis for presentation, in German)
- Discourse analysis and Electric mobility (in German)