Should we weight the stakeholders in multi-actor multi-criteria analysis? Problem description and solutions

Recently MCA has been geared towards addressing stakeholder interests. For instance, in MAMCA criteria are clustered so that they contribute to particular stakeholder objectives. Here, the problem arises of aggregating the different points of view. We discuss several approaches to aggregate stakeholder points of view. Most of these use weights to obtain the multi-actor solution. A distinction is made between intra- and inter-stakeholder weights. Also the possibility of not using inter-stakeholder weights is discussed. The different approaches are illustrated using a real-life case study.status: publishe