Multicriteria Analysis For Environmental Decision Making
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Multicriteria Analysis for Land-Use Management
Author: E. Beinat
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 1998-07-31
Contributors from many disciplines and backgrounds discuss MCA as an integrated approach to land-use management. Sections cover problem structuring for land-use management; multiple perspectives, trade- offs, and the search for compromise and acceptable solutions; multiple actors and multiple perspectives in land-use decisions; spatial information and the integration of spatial analysis and multicriteria analysis; and the future of land-use management. The wide range of case studies include exotic forest plantations in South Africa, forests in the Kathmandu valley, and sustainable agriculture in Greece. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making
Multicriteria analysis, or MCA, has been increasingly used in environmental decision-making to support the identification of suitable courses of action by integrating factual information with value-based information collected through stakeholder engagement. Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making provides an introduction to the key concepts of MCA and includes a series of case studies that illustrate the application of MCA to a variety of environmental decision-making problems ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental impact assessment of tourism infrastructures. A compact reference that can be used by researchers, practitioners and planners/decision makers, Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making can also serve as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in a broad range of curricula.
Multicriteria Evaluation in a Fuzzy Environment
Author: Giuseppe Munda
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2012-12-06
This book is the result of some years of research carried out at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam and at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The awareness of actual and potential conflicts between economic progress in production, consumption, and technology and the environment has led to the concept of "sustainable development", implying that economic and ecological values are well balanced in evaluation and decision making. The linkages between ecosystems and economic systems are the focus of ecological economics. In ecological economics, a multidimensional approach to economic and policy-making is emphasised. In this book, the introduction of multicriteria decision aid techniques in the framework of ecological economics is widely discussed. Since such techniques are based on a "constructive" rationality and allow one to take into account conflictual, multidimensional, incommensurable and uncertain effects of decisions, they can be considered perfectly consistent with the methodological foundations of ecological economics. Since here the assumption is accepted that efficiency, equity and sustainability are the three conflictual values of economics, a mathematical procedure able to deal with these issues in an operational framework is developed, with a particular view on imprecise information in a practical environmental planning context. Given the problem of the differences in the measurement levels of the variables used for economic-ecological modelling, multicriteria methods able to deal with mixed information (both qualitative and quantitative measurements) can be considered particularly useful. Another problem related to the available information concerns the uncertainty (stochastic and/or fuzzy) contained in this information.