Integration of decision analysis and scenario planning for coastal engineering and climate change

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-73

  Karvetski, Christopher W ^a   Lambert, James H ^a   Keisler, Jeffrey M ^b   Linkov, Igor ^c  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^c U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; coastal engineering; multicriteria decision analysis; rank weight

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PROTECTION; DECISION ANALYSIS; INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREFERENCE ORDER; RANK WEIGHT; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SCENARIO PLANNING; VALUE FUNCTIONS;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; INVESTMENTS; SEA LEVEL; SHORE PROTECTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 78349307154     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2055154     Document Type: Article

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