Evaluation of the economic impact of proposed non-indigenous species control measures for the St Lawrence seaway using multi-attribute decision theory

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 16-33

  Yang, Zhiyong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AMERICAN BUREAU OF SHIPPING   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Fuzzy set theory; Modal shift; Non indigenous species; Utility theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842485115     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.mel.9100095     Document Type: Article

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