Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making
ISBN: 9781783089536
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Anthem Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: City planning; Environmental impact analysis; Decision making;

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.


Davide Geneletti is associate professor of spatial planning at the University of Trento, Italy, specializing in impact assessment of projects, plans and policies; ecosystem services and urban green infrastructures; and multicriteria analysis. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management and deputy editor of the open-access journal, One Ecosystem.

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