Environmental impact assessment based on group decision-making methods in mining projects

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 378-392

  Rikhtegar, Navid ^a   Mansouri, Nabiollah ^a   Oroumieh, Amir Ahadi ^b   Yazdani Chamzini, Abdolreza ^c   Zavadskas, Edmundas Kazimieras ^d   Kildienė, Simona ^d  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Analytic network process (ANP); Environmental impact assessment (EAI); Fuzzy simple additive weight (SAW); MCDM

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MINING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

IRAN; ZANJAN;

EID: 84922340210     PISSN: 1331677X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2014.966971     Document Type: Article

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