Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making

Download or read book Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making written by Davide Geneletti and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multicriteria analysis, or MCA, has been increasingly used in environmental decision-making to support the identification of suitable courses of action by integrating factual information with value-based information collected through stakeholder engagement. Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making provides an introduction to the key concepts of MCA and includes a series of case studies that illustrate the application of MCA to a variety of environmental decision-making problems ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental impact assessment of tourism infrastructures. A compact reference that can be used by researchers, practitioners and planners/decision makers, Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making can also serve as a textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in a broad range of curricula.