Water supply system decision making using multicriteria analysis

Water SA

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 229-235

  Morais, Danielle C ^a   Almeida, Adiel T ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Investment justification; Multicriteria analysis; Water supply

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FINANCE; INVESTMENTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WATER SUPPLY;

CONCORDANCE; ELECTRE; INVESTMENT JUSTIFICATION; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS;

WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FINANCE; INVESTMENTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WATER SUPPLY; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; INVESTMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33645882518     PISSN: 03784738     EISSN: 03784738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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