Multicriteria spatial decision support systems for future urban energy retrofitting scenarios

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Lombardi, Patrizia ^a   Abastante, Francesca ^a   Torabi Moghadam, Sara ^a   Toniolo, Jacopo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Criteria definition; Criteria ranking; Multicriteria spatial decision support system (MC SDSS); Urban energy scenarios

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENERGY RESOURCE; FUTURE PROSPECT; KNOWLEDGE; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RANKING; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; STANDARD (REFERENCE); SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN ECONOMY;

EID: 85025170865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su9071252     Document Type: Article

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