The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis, and a series of case studies that illustrate its application 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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Principles of Multicriteria Analysis; Chapter 2. A Review of MCA Applications for Nature Conservation; Chapter 3. Landfill Site Selection: Combining Spatial MCA with Stakeholder Analysis; Chapter 4. Protected Area Zoning: Integrating Spatial MCA and Multi-objective Evaluation; Chapter 5. Forest Landscape Restoration: Applying MCA to Design and Compare Options; Chapter 6. Impact Assessment of Ski Areas: Combining GIS Indicators with MCA; Chapter 7. Conclusions; References; Annex 1; Index.
