Assessing Rural Sustainable Development potentialities using a Dominance-based Rough Set Approach

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 144, Issue , 2014, Pages 160-167

  Boggia, Antonio ^a   Rocchi, Lucia ^a   Paolotti, Luisa ^a   Musotti, Francesco ^a   Greco, Salvatore ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dominance based Rough Set Approach; Multi criteria analysis; Rural development; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; REGIONAL PLANNING; RURAL AREAS;

DOMINANCE-BASED ROUGH SET APPROACH; DOMINANCE-BASED ROUGH SETS; EUROPEAN UNION; FINANCIAL PROGRAM; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; KEY WORDS; LONG-TERM POLICIES; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SETS APPROACH;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DOMINANCE BASED ROUGH SET APPROACH; HUMAN; ITALY; LIVESTOCK; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SCATTERING INDEX; ROUGH SET; RURAL AREA; RURAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; POLICY; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ITALY; UMBRIA;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ITALY; MODELS, ECONOMIC; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL PLANNING;

EID: 84902437544     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.05.021     Document Type: Article

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