Fuzzy environmental decision-making: Applications to air pollution

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1865-1877

  Fisher, Bernard ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Fuzzy sets; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; AIR QUALITY; DECISION MAKING; FUZZY SETS;

HUMAN HEALTH ASSESSMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH HAZARD; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION CONTROL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0037400392     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1352-2310(03)00028-1     Document Type: Review

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