A Multicriteria Group Decision Model to Support Watershed Committees in Brazil

Water Resources Management

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4075-4091

  Silva, Vanessa B S ^a   Morais, Danielle C ^a   Almeida, Adiel T ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Group decision; Multicriteria analysis; PROMETHEE; Water resources management

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; GROUP DECISION; GROUP DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTI-CRITERIA METHOD; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; PROMETHEE; RANKING OF ALTERNATIVES; THIRD PARTIES; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; LANDFORMS; WATERSHEDS;

WATER RESOURCES;

COMPLEXITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; RANKING; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER PLANNING; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

BRAZIL;

EID: 77957740792     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9648-2     Document Type: Article

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