Coping with complex environmental and societal flood risk management decisions: An integrated multi-criteria framework

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1357-1380

  Hansson, Karin ^a   Larsson, Aron ^a,b   Danielson, Mats ^a   Ekenberg, Love ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision; Democracy; Multiple criteria; Natural disasters; Policy formulation; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867339572     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3091357     Document Type: Article

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