Coupling multi-criteria decision analysis, life-cycle assessment, and risk assessment for emerging threats

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5068-5074

  Linkov, Igor ^a   Seager, Thomas P ^b  

^a Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC APPROACH; BIOLOGICAL AGENTS; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; REGULATORY RISKS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; LIFE CYCLE; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; RATING; RESEARCH; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

DECISION ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; METHODOLOGY; MULTICRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 79959256997     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es100959q     Document Type: Article

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