Sensitivity analysis in multicriteria spatial decision-making: A review

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1173-1187

  Delgado, Montserrat Gómez ^a   Sendra, Joaquín Bosque ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Collaborative decision making; Geographical Information Systems; Multicriteria evaluation; Noxious facilities; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 12244288880     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030490887221     Document Type: Review

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