Applying Multiple Criteria Aid For Decision To Environmental Management (eurocourses: Environmental Management)

There is a demand for aids to decision making from different scientific disciplines in the assessment and management of environmental problems. Since such problems cannot be solved on the basis of one criterion of choice, i.e. by the optimization of a single criterion, multicriteria decision aids (MCDA) have to be used. There is a variety of MCDA methods, each having been developed for a specific domain of application. Here it is shown that many methods can be used in the environmental management problem. The book is divided into three sections. Section 1 is concerned with MCDA in environmental managements, and is subdivided into sections covering general aspects, environmental planning, waste management, and energy management. Section 2 contains three papers: Environment, social choices and intergenerational equity; Indicators for sustainable agriculture and rural development, and tools for analysis; and An ecosystem and its equilibrium points. Section 3 contains contributions on various specific MCDA methods, such as neural nets, ARGUS, AHP, SURMESURE, morphological theories, and rough-set sorting. Content: Front Matter....Pages i-ix Multicriteria Evaluation in Environmental Management: Why and How?....Pages 1-22 Multiparametric Analysis for Industrial Strategies Oriented Towards Environmental Protection....Pages 23-27 Multicriteria Aspects of Environmental Indices....Pages 29-35 A Reference Framework for Environmental Impact Assessment Processes....Pages 37-50 Evaluation Multicritere: Une Approche Qualitative....Pages 51-62 Multicriterial Decisions for Air-Pollution Reduction in Urban Regions....Pages 63-79 Aide a la Decision en Matiere d’Environnement; Cas de la Depollution de la Rade de Brest....Pages 81-93 The Use of Mappac and Pragma Methods to Support Decision on Industrial Waste Management....Pages 95-110 The Choice of a Solid Waste Management System by Using the Electre III Decision-Aid Method....Pages 111-153 Impact Sur L’Environnement des Rejets de Phosphogypse des Unites Siape et Saepa a Gabes Tunisie....Pages 155-162 Environmental Assessment of an Electric Transmission Line Project: A MCDA Method....Pages 163-185 Energy Planning and Trade-Offs between Environmental and Economic Criteria....Pages 187-198 Environment, Social Choices and Intergenerational Equity....Pages 199-211 Indicators for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development, and Tools for Analysis....Pages 213-231 An Ecosystem and Its Equilibrium Points....Pages 233-246 Segmentation Problems and Neural Networks....Pages 247-262 Argus — A New Multiple Criteria Method Based on the General Idea of Outranking....Pages 263-278 How to Assess the Weights of the Criteria in the AHP....Pages 279-290 Surmesure: An Instrument for Representation and Interpretation of Electre and Promethee Methods Results....Pages 291-304 Aide a la Decision et Theories Morphologiques....Pages 305-338 Back Matter....Pages 359-365 Rough-Set Sorting of Firms According to Bankruptcy Risk....Pages 339-357 Based on the papers presented at the 38th Meeting of the European Working Group 'Multicriteria Aid for Decision', held at the Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, October 7--8, 1993