Multi-Criteria Decision Making Applications in Green Growth: A Systematic Literature Review

Nowadays, growing population and manufacturing causes an increase in industrial activities. As a result of the increase in industrial activity, it is observed that high levels of CO2 emissions. Therefore many environmental problems have been observed including global warming. In this context, countries tend to prefer production technologies which aim to minimize CO2 emissions. As a result of environmental and economic problems in recent times, green growth and green economy concepts have emerged. Green growth can be defined as a point of encouraging production and consumption of goods and services to minimize damage to the environment. It is possible to increase the economic development and employment opportunities and environmental sustainability by this approach. Short and long term using of environmental and economic problems with green growth, the increase of product characteristics and firms, and the variability of product features have led to the need for multi-criteria decision. Therefore, caring the multiple criteria and the alternatives, the multi-criteria decision making techniques are taken to the scope of application with green growth. In this paper, green growth’s studies in literature are examined in three main topics as Green Manufacturing, Green Supplier Selection and Green Energy. The purpose of the study is to determine the most popular area of green growth and to find out the inadequacy in order to lead researchers efforts to this field. Besides, criteria which are commonly used in each main topic are indicated to help researchers.