The low carbon development (LCD) levels' evaluation of the world's 47 countries (areas) by combining the FAHP with the TOPSIS method

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 6628-6640

  Jia, Junsong ^a,b   Fan, Ying ^a   Guo, Xiaodan ^a,c,d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

FAHP; Low carbon development level; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION PROCESS; DEVELOPMENT MODES; DIRECTIVE SIGNIFICANCE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FAHP; FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; INPUT WEIGHTS; LOW CARBON; LOW CARBON ECONOMY; POLICY SUGGESTIONS; TOPSIS; TOPSIS METHOD;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 84856970737     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.12.039     Document Type: Article

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