Decision Support Systems for environmental management: A case study on wastewater from agriculture

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 146, Issue , 2014, Pages 491-504

  Massei, Gianluca ^a   Rocchi, Lucia ^a   Paolotti, Luisa ^a   Greco, Salvatore ^b,c   Boggia, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GIS; GIS MCDA integration; Modular package; Multicriteria analysis; Spatial Decision Support Systems

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; METADATA;

CASE-STUDIES; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM-MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSE INTEGRATION; MODULAR PACKAGE; MODULARS; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; WASTEWATER;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; MULTICRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ITALY; PROCEDURES; SOIL; WASTE WATER;

SOIL; WASTE WATER;

AGRICULTURE; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ITALY; SOFTWARE; SOIL; WASTE WATER;

EID: 84909958940     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.08.012     Document Type: Article

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