ANPSort II: an Experimentation to Assess the Resilience of a Socio-Ecological System

In the current context of climate change, Decision Makers are ever more interested to use multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to support the practice of resilience thinking within long-term strategies. This paper presents an experimentation of a Multicriteria Decision Analysis approach (MCDA) developed through the Analytic Network Process Sorting II method (ANPSort II) to investigate the resilience of a Socio-Ecological Systems as a group of territorial clusters in the Grand-Est region, France. A set of indicators was defined to evaluate the resilience of territorial clusters, according to analyses performed through GIS and STEEP+SWOT Analysis. A survey was developed to investigate the importance of the set of indicators and to assess the resilience performance of the case study under investigation. The assessment was represented into a GIS spatial map to aid the visualization of the final classification. The ANPSort II method may be considered a very promising evaluation procedure to aid planners and Decision Makers to envision scenarios of territorial transformation for the planning of more sustainable and resilient cities and territories.