Waste treatment: an environmental, economic and social analysis with a new group fuzzy PROMETHEE approach

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1317-1332

  Lolli, Francesco ^a   Ishizaka, Alessio ^b   Gamberini, Rita ^a   Rimini, Bianca ^a   Ferrari, Anna Maria ^a   Marinelli, Simona ^c   Savazza, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fuzzy theory; Group decision; Multi criteria decision analysis; PROMETHEE; Waste treatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979871475     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-015-1087-6     Document Type: Article

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