Social Planner's Solution for the Caspian Sea Conflict

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 579-596

  Madani, Kaveh ^a   Sheikhmohammady, Majid ^b   Mokhtari, Soroush ^a   Moradi, Mojtaba ^c   Xanthopoulos, Petros ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

^b TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c K N TOOSI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Caspian Sea; Conflict resolution; Decision making; Multi criteria; Social planner

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874804140     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-013-9345-7     Document Type: Article

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