Water use scenarios assessment using multicriteria analysis

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 17, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 125-135

  Boggia, Antonio ^a   Rocchi, Lucia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Multicriteria decision aid; Multipurpose water resource; Regime method; Stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis; Sustainable local development

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028158889     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.457     Document Type: Article

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