An approach to elaborate priority preorders of water resources projects based on multi-criteria evaluation and fuzzy sets analysis

Water Resources Management

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-33

  Karnib, A ^a  

^a LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Fuzzy sets; Priority preorders; Water resources projects

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

WATER PROBLEMS; WATER SCARCITY;

WATER RESOURCES;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 1842535269     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WARM.0000015347.87047.5b     Document Type: Article

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