Modeling and measuring urban sustainability in multi-criteria based systems — A challenging issue

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 73, Issue , 2017, Pages 597-611

  Ali Toudert, Fazia ^a   Ji, Limei ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CAMSUD; Criteria interaction; Indicator quantification; Rating system; Sustainability model; Weighting

Indexed keywords

RATING; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); URBAN GROWTH;

CAMSUD; CRITERIA INTERACTION; PERFORMANCE-ORIENTED; RATING SYSTEM; SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT; TREE-LIKE STRUCTURES; URBAN SUSTAINABILITY; WEIGHTING;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84995761548     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.09.046     Document Type: Article

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