Analysis of the potentials of multi criteria decision analysis methods to conduct sustainability assessment

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 138-148

  Cinelli, Marco ^a   Coles, Stuart R ^a   Kirwan, Kerry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data integration; Decision rules; DRSA; Multi criteria decision analysis; Outranking methods; Sustainability assessment

Indexed keywords

DATA INTEGRATION; DECISION THEORY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LIFE CYCLE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DECISION RULES; DRSA; MULTI-CRITERIA-DECISION-ANALYSIS; OUTRANKING METHODS; SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84903939756     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.06.011     Document Type: Review

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