Applying a Modified VIKOR Method to Classify Land Subdivisions According to Watershed Vulnerability

Water Resources Management

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 301-309

  Chang, Chia Ling ^a   Hsu, Chung Hsin ^b  

^a FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHIA NAN UNIVERSITY OF PHARMACY AND SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Environmental vulnerability; Multi criteria analysis; Tseng Wen reservoir wastershed; VIKOR

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; POPULATION STATISTICS; WATERSHEDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTIC; ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY; HIGH POPULATION DENSITY; LAND-USE RESTRICTIONS; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; TSENG-WEN RESERVOIR WASTERSHED; VIKOR;

LAND USE;

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND USE PLANNING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; VULNERABILITY; WATERSHED;

CHIAYI; KAOHSIUNG; TAINAN; TAIWAN; TSENG-WEN BASIN;

EID: 78650415058     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9700-2     Document Type: Article

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