Country Evaluation of Islamic Economic Criteria: An Application Using Entropy Weight and TOPSIS Methodologies

[EN] While Islamic economy is growing in all sectors, Halal compliance is carried out by more countries worldwide. The purpose of this paper is toestablish a methodology based on MCDM methods in order to create an accurate ranking of countries according to the basis of the Halal standards, which can be used by public and private institutions. Although Islamic economy is evaluated globally by different institutions every year, those reports are based on indicators which are equally weighted. In this paper, weights of the six Islamic economy criteria are determined by the EWM (Entropy Weight Method) and theTechnique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) has been used to create a ranking of countries in terms of the Halal principles.Mayor-Vitoria, F.; Garcia-Bernabeu, A.; Abdul Rahman, NA.; Mohammad, MF. (2021). Country Evaluation of Islamic Economic Criteria: An Application Using Entropy Weight and TOPSIS Methodologies. International Journal of Science and Research. 10(2):979-986. https://doi.org/10.21275/SR21216022424S97998610

A systematic review on the ecosystem services provided by green infrastructure

Urbanization and climate change are endangering the sustainability of public spaces through increased land artificialization, ecological fragmentation, reduced resource availability, and limited accessibility to natural and seminatural areas. Properly managing Green Infrastructure (GI) can contribute to mitigating these challenges by delivering multiple provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural Ecosystem Services (ES). This would facilitate the implementation of strategically planned GI networks in cities for urban regeneration purposes. In this context, this study developed a systematic review on the ES provided by GI using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement. The analysis of 199 eligible articles indicated that more efforts should be made to address more ES at once, which connects to the need for conceiving GI as a strategically planned network of areas aimed at delivering diverse benefits. Based on the methods used in the items reviewed, geoprocessing tools and multi-criteria decision analysis are proposed to develop systems of indicators capable of accounting for multiple ES. These systems should also rely on multidisciplinary and participative procedures to encompass various facets of GI and represent the priorities of all relevant stakeholders