The threat of weighting biases in environmental decision analysis

Ecological Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 556-569

  Hämäläinen, Raimo P ^a   Alaja, Susanna ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Environmental decision making; Multicriteria decision analysis; Splitting bias; Structuring

Indexed keywords

DECISION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY;

EID: 53649101622     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.05.025     Document Type: Article

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