Weak and strong compensation for the prioritization of public investments: Multidimensional analysis for pools

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 16022-16038

  De Mare, Gianluigi ^a   Granata, Maria Fiorella ^b   Nesticò, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Economic assessment; Multicriteria evaluation; PROMETHEE II; SMART; Sports facilities; Strong and weak sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION SYSTEM; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INVESTMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PRIORITIZATION; SPORTS FACILITY; SUSTAINABILITY;

EUROPE;

EID: 84949666474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su71215798     Document Type: Article

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