Multicriteria tools for the implementation of historic urban landscape

Quality Innovation Prosperity

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 186-201

  Gravagnuolo, Antonia ^a   Girard, Luigi Fusco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Evaluation tools; Historic Urban Landscape; Impact assessment; Multidimensional indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019086218     PISSN: 13351745     EISSN: 1338984X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12776/QIP.V21I1.792     Document Type: Article

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