A spatial decision support tool to study risks and opportunities of complex environmental systems

Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 197-212

  Ferretti, Valentina ^a   Bottero, Marta ^a   Mondini, Giulio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analytic Network Process; Multicriteria Analysis; Scenario analysis; Spatial Decision Support Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009400009     PISSN: 23256192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5890/JEAM.2015.06.008     Document Type: Article

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