DISCUSS: A soft computing approach to spatial disaggregation in economic evaluation of public policies

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 265-278

  Paez, Daniel ^a   Bishop, Ian D ^a   Williamson, Ian P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; PUBLIC POLICY; SOFT COMPUTING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS PROCESS; COMPUTING THEORY; COST-BENEFITS ANALYSIS; DECISION INFORMATION SYSTEM; ECONOMICS EVALUATIONS; PUBLIC PARTICIPATION; SOFT COMPUTING APPROACHES; SOFT-COMPUTING; SPATIAL DISAGGREGATION; STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GIS; POLICY ANALYSIS; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 33644770165     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2006.00257.x     Document Type: Article

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