A method for decision making using sustainability indicators

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 749-755

  Smith, Raymond L ^a   Ruiz Mercado, Gerardo J ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; GREENSCOPE; Marginal rates of substitution; Multiobjective; Singular value decomposition; Sustainability indicators; Weights

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

GREENSCOPE; MARGINAL RATES; MULTI OBJECTIVE; SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS; WEIGHTS;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

EID: 84905685585     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-013-0684-5     Document Type: Article

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