Feasibility versus sustainability in urban water management

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 245-260

  Starkl, Markus ^a   Brunner, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Decision making process; Multicriteria decision support method; Social welfare theory; Subsidies; Tendering; Urban water management

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKERS; DECISION-MAKING PROCESS; MULTICRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT; MULTICRITERIUM DECISION SUPPORT METHOD; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIAL WELFARE THEORY; SUBSIDY; SUPPORT METHOD; TENDERING; URBAN WATER MANAGEMENT;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DECISION MAKING; URBAN AREA; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EUTROPHICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; METHODOLOGY; RIVER BASIN; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 3242693467     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2004.03.004     Document Type: Article

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