Assessing the geographic expression of urban sustainability: A scenario based approach incorporating spatial multicriteria decision analysis

Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2348-2365

  Kropp, Walter W ^a   Lein, James K ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mutlicriteria decision making; Planning; Scenario analysis; Urban land use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872425780     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su4092348     Document Type: Article

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