Prioritize strategies to confront environmental deterioration in urban areas: Multicriteria assessment of public opinion and experts' views

Cities

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 414-423

  Achillas, Ch ^a   Vlachokostas, Ch ^b   Moussiopoulos, N ^b   Banias, G ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL HELLENIC UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environmental quality; Improvement strategies; Multicriteria analysis; Public opinion; Urban transportation

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; METROPOLITAN AREA; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORT;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA];

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 80051585662     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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