Multiscale land use impacts on water quality: Assessment, planning, and future perspectives in Brazil

K de Mello, RH Taniwaki, FR de Paula… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Brazil contains the largest volume of freshwater of any nation in the world; however, this
essential natural resource is threatened by rapid increases in water consumption and water …

A review of multi-criteria decision-making methods for infrastructure management

G Kabir, R Sadiq, S Tesfamariam - Structure and infrastructure …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In infrastructure management, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) has emerged as a
decision support tool to integrate various technical information and stakeholder values …

Multi actor multi criteria analysis (MAMCA) as a tool to support sustainable decisions: State of use

C Macharis, L Turcksin, K Lebeau - Decision Support Systems, 2012 - Elsevier
In this contribution, the multi actor multi criteria analysis (MAMCA) to evaluate transport
projects is presented. This evaluation methodology specifically focuses on the inclusion of …

Multi-criteria decision analysis: a strategic planning tool for water loss management

HE Mutikanga, SK Sharma… - Water resources …, 2011 - Springer
Water utilities particularly in the developing countries continue to operate with considerable
inefficiencies in terms of water and revenue losses. With increasing water demand and …

Group decision making on water resources based on analysis of individual rankings

DC Morais, AT de Almeida - Omega, 2012 - Elsevier
In problems to do with managing water resources multiple decision makers are involved,
each acting in their own right and using different value systems. In the literature on …

Decision support methods and applications in the upstream oil and gas sector

M Shafiee, I Animah, B Alkali, D Baglee - Journal of Petroleum Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Decision-making support (DMS) methods are widely used for technical, economic, social
and environmental assessments within different energy sectors, including upstream oil and …

Bringing ecosystem services into integrated water resources management

S Liu, ND Crossman, M Nolan, H Ghirmay - Journal of environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper we propose an ecosystem service framework to support integrated water
resource management and apply it to the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia. Water resources …

Are objectives hierarchy related biases observed in practice? A meta-analysis of environmental and energy applications of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

M Marttunen, V Belton, J Lienert - European Journal of Operational …, 2018 - Elsevier
Procedural and behavioural biases have received little attention in recent Multi-Criteria
Decision Analysis (MCDA) research. Our literature review shows that most research on …

Selecting the best statistical distribution with PROMETHEE and GAIA

A Ishizaka, P Nemery - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
Three methods have previously been presented in Computer and Industrial Engineering for
the selection of a statistical distribution to describe a data-set: the weighted sum model, the …

Sustainability decision support framework for industrial system prioritization

J Ren, D Xu, H Cao, S Wei, L Dong… - AIChE Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A multicriteria decision‐making methodology for the sustainability prioritization of industrial
systems is proposed. The methodology incorporates a fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process …