Group decision-making for leakage management strategy of water network

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 441-459

  Morais, Danielle Costa ^a   de Almeida, Adiel Teixeira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Leakage; Multiple criteria analysis; Water losses

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL CRITERIA; STAKEHOLDERS; WATER LOSSES;

LEAKAGE (FLUID);

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; LEAKAGE (FLUID); NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING; LEAKAGE; MODEL; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER; WATER LOSS; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 34548812339     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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