Energy Decision Making: Problems, Methods, and Tools

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on the broad topic of energy decision making from various perspectives: theoretical, methodological, and legal.

Making decisions concerning the use of energy sources is a very difficult and complicated task. They are taken at various levels, from individual to international. Individuals and households make energy decisions taking into account needs, costs, preferences or social norms. At the national level, such decisions are made in accordance with formalized procedures resulting from legal conditions but are influenced by many different and sometimes competing factors: economic, social, environmental, and political. Market forces, taxes, regulations, and subsidies affect the prices of various forms of energy. Social and environmental costs are connected with the impact of different energy sources on land, air, water, ecosystems, and people. In turn, political factors resulting from the governmental structure, actions of politicians, and parties create the context of energy decisions.

We invite you to submit high-quality research articles covering a wide range of topics related to theoretical aspects of energy decision making and problems that arise in practice at various levels (case studies).

Topics of interest for this Special Issue are connected with methods and tools supporting the process of energy decision making and data acquisition for decision making purposes, such as (but not restricted to): multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), operational research methods, multidimensional comparative analysis (MCA), modeling and computer simulation, artificial intelligence, econometric and statistical methods, neuroscience techniques, focus group interviews (FGIs), individual in-depth interviews (IDI), data text mining, IT tools, decision support systems, computer games, virtual reality, and other methods and tools.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Małgorzata Łatuszyńska
Prof. Dr. Kesra Nermend
Guest Editors

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