Multicriteria decision analysis: Overview and implications for environmental decision making
By: Caroline M. Hermans and Jon D. Erickson
Edited by: Jon D. Erickson, Frank Messner, and Irene Ring
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Abstract
Environmental decision making involving multiple stakeholders can benefit from the use of a formal process to structure stakeholder interactions, leading to more successful outcomes than traditional discursive decision processes. There are many tools available to handle complex decision making. Here we illustrate the use of a multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) outranking tool (PROMETHEE) to facilitate decision making at the watershed scale, involving multiple stakeholders, multiple criteria, and multiple objectives. We compare various MCDA methods and their theoretical underpinnings, examining methods that most realistically model complex decision problems in ways that are understandable and transparent to stakeholders.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title | Multicriteria decision analysis: Overview and implications for environmental decision making |
| Volume | 7 |
| Year Published | 2007 |
| Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
| Publisher location | Greenwich, CT |
| Contributing office(s) | Western Geographic Science Center |
| Description | 16 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Title | Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources |
| First page | 213 |
| Last page | 228 |
| Country | United States |
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