A Decision Support Tool to Assess and Prioritise Project Drawdown Solutions at the Local Level
2020 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (One Year)), 20 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
This thesis analyses how public decision-makers can rapidly and sustainably decarbonise their regions, considering the challenge that promoting timely decarbonisation represents. The research was divided into three phases and developed using desk studies and interviews with Project Drawdown (PD) experts, Swedish public officials and researchers. In phase one, PD solutions showed a shortcoming in sustainable operationalisation of global decarbonisation solutions. It was found that they alone could not account for sustainability, and that there is dependency on the context of application and on decision-making processes. In phase two, it was found that sustainability could be embedded in decision-making for decarbonisation through decision support. In the Blekinge example case, several challenges were found, for which sustainable decision support was needed. To respond to this challenge, a Decision Support tool (DST) was created, based on multi-criteria decision analysis. This three-step generic tool provides a relevance assessment to prove the suitability of decarbonisation solutions in the given context, a sustainability assessment to address sustainability challenges, and a prioritisation step for strategic decision-making. The tool was validated to be useful by Swedish policymakers and by international experts. This DST has the potential to support policy-making around the world to decarbonise regions rapidly and sustainably.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. , p. 47
Keywords [en]
Sustainability, Project Drawdown, Decarbonisation solutions, Decision-making, Decision Support Tool, Multi-criteria decision analysis
National Category
Climate Research
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-20222OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-20222DiVA, id: diva2:1454468
Subject / course
SL2538 Master's Thesis in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability
Educational program
SLASL (Master programme in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability
Supervisors
Examiners
2020-08-042020-07-162020-08-04Bibliographically approved