A multi-objective model for environmental investment decision making

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 253-266

  Higgins, Andrew J ^a   Hajkowicz, Stefan ^a   Bui, Elisabeth ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Case study; Environmental investment; GRASP; Multi objective optimisation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CATCHMENTS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; RUNOFF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CASE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENTS; GREEDY RANDOMISED ADAPTIVE SEARCH PROCEDURE (GRASP);

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 34250206967     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2006.02.027     Document Type: Article

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