Comparison of Different Multi Criteria Decision-Making Models in Prioritizing Flood Management Alternatives

Water Resources Management

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2503-2525

  Chitsaz, Nastaran ^a   Banihabib, Mohammad Ebrahim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Aggregation methods; Decision making; Flood risk management; Iran; Non parametric stochastic tests; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD INSURANCE; FLOODS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

AGGREGATION METHODS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT; IRAN; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION-MAKING MODELS; NON-COMPENSATORY MODEL; NON-PARAMETRIC;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84939973734     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: 15731650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-015-0954-6     Document Type: Article

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