Assessing climate change vulnerability with group multi-criteria decision making approaches

Climatic Change

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 301-315

  Kim, Yeonjoo ^a   Chung, Eun Sung ^b  

^a Korea Environment Institute (KEI)   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE INDEX; GROUP MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKINGS; MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES; MULTICRITERIA DECISION-MAKING; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; TECHNIQUE FOR ORDER PREFERENCE BY SIMILARITY TO IDEAL SOLUTIONS; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS; WEIGHTED SUM METHOD;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; FLOOD CONTROL; SURVEYS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER RESOURCES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; FLOOD CONTROL; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; VULNERABILITY; WATER RESOURCE; WATER SUPPLY;

SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 84887618147     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-013-0879-0     Document Type: Article

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