Local Action Groups and Rural Sustainable Development. A spatial multiple criteria approach for efficient territorial planning

Land Use Policy

Volumn 59, Issue , 2016, Pages 12-26

  Ottomano Palmisano, Giovanni ^a   Govindan, Kannan ^b   Boggia, Antonio ^c   Loisi, Rosa Viviana ^a   De Boni, Annalisa ^a   Roma, Rocco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

DRSA; Local Action Groups; Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding; Rural Sustainable Development; Spatial Decision Support Systems; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EUROPEAN UNION; GIS; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PLANNING METHOD; RURAL PLANNING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TERRITORIAL PLANNING;

ITALY; PUGLIA;

EID: 84983792822     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.08.002     Document Type: Article

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