Subjectively and objectively integrated assessment of the quality indices of the suburban residential environment

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 297-308

  Lazauskaitė, Dovilė ^a   Burinskienė, Marija ^a   Podvezko, Valentinas ^a  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Entropy weights; Expert rating; Priority sequence; Residential environment; Suburbs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944220880     PISSN: 1648715X     EISSN: 16489179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/1648715X.2015.1051164     Document Type: Article

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