Environmental risk management with the use of multi-criteria spatial decision support system DECERNS

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 175-198

  Yatsalo, Boris ^a   Sullivan, Terry ^b   Didenko, Vladimir ^a   Gritsuk, Sergey ^a   Tkachuk, Alexander ^a   Mireabasov, Oleg ^a   Slipenkaya, Valeria ^a   Pichugina, Irina ^a   Linkov, Igor ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH NUCLEAR UNIVERSITY MEPHI   (Russian Federation)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c US Army Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Countermeasure optimisation; Geographic information system; GIS; MCDA; Multi criteria decision analysis; Risk management; SDSSs; Spatial decision support systems; Web based spatial decision support system; Websdss

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871860996     PISSN: 14668297     EISSN: 17415241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJRAM.2012.051254     Document Type: Article

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