A Multi-level Strategic Group Decision Making for Understanding and Analysis of Sustainable Watershed Planning in Response to Environmental Perplexities

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 629-648

  Azarnivand, Ali ^a   Banihabib, Mohammad Ebrahim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Compromise programming; Strategic group decision making; Sustainable development; TOPSIS; Watershed based planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84970022021     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-016-9484-8     Document Type: Article

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