Spatial Multicriteria Decision Making and Analysis
A Geographic Information Sciences Approach
Published on 6. April 1999
Book
Hardback
394 pages
978-1-84014-952-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text presents a collection of 12 scholarly papers authored by geographers, regional scientists, planners and environmental scientists from around the world on topics of multicriteria decision-making and analysis in the visual and computation environment provided by geographic information systems. The volume represents a cross-section of state-of-the-art research at the interface of geographic information sciences and decision sciences. The book aims to be of interest to a broad community of researchers, practitioners and advanced students in the fields of geography, urban and regional planning, environmental studies and regional sciences. Theoretical and applied considerations are blended throughout the volume.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
figures
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 225 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84014-952-4 (9781840149524)
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Content
Part 1 Theoretical and conceptual issues: spatial multicriteria decision analysis; developing web-based GIS/MCE - improving access to data and spatial decision support tools; spatial dimensions in multicriteria analysis. Part 2 Locational decision-making and analysis: equitable approaches to location problems; application of a multiple criteria trade-off approach to spatial decision-making; GDSS in highway planning - their use and adoption; urban land management in transition economies - a decision support prototype for Shanghai; the strategic identification of suitable land for low income housing - a case study from South Africa; South Africa patterns of inequality and reform relating to socio-economic status and access to services. Part 3 Systemic decision-making and analysis: apres moi le deluge - multicriteria problems in multiregional water resources decision-making; distributed knowledge, distributed processing, distributed users - emerging methodologies and case based reasoning for decision-making using traditional environmental knowledge and GIS; geographic tools for decision-making in watershed management; GIS-approach for land suitability assessment in developing countries - the case study of forest development project in Mexico; exploring the potential of multi-criteria spatial decision support systems - a system for sustainable land-use planning and design.