Multicriteria analysis for environmental planning and assessment
Multicriteria analysis (MCA) has been increasingly used in environmental decision-making to support the identification of suitable courses of action, by integrating factual information coming for example from field surveys or impact modelling, with value-based information collected through stakeholder engagement This book provides an introduction to key concepts of MCA, and a series of case studies that illustrate the application of MCA to a variety of environmental decision-making problems. To…
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- Full title :Multicriteria analysis for environmental planning and assessment / Davide Geneletti.
Summary
Multicriteria analysis (MCA) has been increasingly used in environmental decision-making to support the identification of suitable courses of action, by integrating factual information coming for example from field surveys or impact modelling, with value-based information collected through stakeholder engagement This book provides an introduction to key concepts of MCA, and a series of case studies that illustrate the application of MCA to a variety of environmental decision-making problems. Topics include Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), protected areas planning and zoning, tourist infrastructures planning, forest restoration and nature conservation. Techniques described in the different cases include GIS-based MCA, sensitivity analysis, optimisation techniques, land suitability analysis, and others. The book provides a compact reference that can be used by researchers as a key resource offering an update and overview of the field, as well as by practitioners and planners/decision makers as a source of inspiration for their activity. Additionally, the book will be a suitable textbook for both under and post-graduate courses in a broad range of curricula, including Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Planning and Architecture, Geography, Economics, Decision Sciences.
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- Publication Date:2019.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Anthem Press
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico (viii, 123 páginas))
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781783089536, 1783089539
- oclc:on1286775965
- Dewey Decimal:333.71/4
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