Spatial multicriteria analysis for sustainability assessment: A new model for decision making

Land Use Policy

Volumn 71, Issue , 2018, Pages 281-292

  Boggia, Antonio ^a   Massei, Gianluca ^a   Pace, Elaine ^b   Rocchi, Lucia ^a   Paolotti, Luisa ^a   Attard, Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

GIS; MCDA GIS integration; Multi criteria analysis; Sustainability assessment; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GIS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

MALTA [SOUTHERN EUROPE];

EID: 85037655698     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.11.036     Document Type: Article

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