Analysing water resources alternatives and handling criteria by multi criterion decision techniques

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 69-96

  Özelkan, Ertunga C ^a   Duckstein, Lucien ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Austrian Danube; Compromise programming (CP); Cooperative game theory (CGT); Geometrical analysis for interactive assistance (GAIA); Importance of criteria; Multi criterion decision making (MCDM); Multi criterion Q analysis (MCQA); Preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluations (PROMETHEE); Water resources

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ECOLOGY; GAME THEORY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIAN DANUBE; COMPROMISE PROGRAMMING; COMPROMIZE PROGRAMMING; COOPERATIVE GAME THEORY; CRITERION Q; GEOMETRICAL ANALYSE FOR INTERACTIVE ASSISTANCE; GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS; IMPORTANCE OF CRITERIA; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING; MULTI CRITERIA Q-ANALYSE; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERION; MULTICRITERIA DECISION-MAKING; MULTICRITERION DECISION MAKINGS; PREFERENCE RANKING ORGANISATION METHOD FOR ENRICHMENT EVALUATIONS; PREFERENCE RANKING ORGANIZATION METHOD FOR ENRICHMENT EVALUATION; Q ANALYSIS; WATERS RESOURCES;

WATER RESOURCES;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RIVER; SOCIOLOGY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MCDM; METHOD EVALUATION; METHODOLOGICAL EVALUATION; MULTICRITERIA DECISION MAKING; PLANNING TECHNIQUE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

AUSTRIA, DANUBE RIVER;

EID: 0030222703     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jema.1996.0066     Document Type: Article

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