Structured decision-making for sustainable water infrastructure planning and four future scenarios

EURO Journal on Decision Processes

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 107-140

  Lienert, Judit ^a   Scholten, Lisa ^a   Egger, Christoph ^a   Maurer, Max ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Decision making; Scenario planning; Stakeholder participation; Structuring; Water infrastructure; Water management

Indexed keywords

EID: 85065129075     PISSN: 21939438     EISSN: 21939446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40070-014-0030-0     Document Type: Article

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