Multicriteria Analysis for Land-Use Management

The idea of this book started at approximately 33.000 feet, somewhere above the Alps. On our way to a workshop in Venice we had the opportunity of appreciating the different types of landscapes and the complex patchwork of urban areas, agriculture, forests, rivers and lakes that can be seen from an...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Beinat, E. (Editor), Nijkamp, Peter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1998, 1998
Edition:1st ed. 1998
Series:Environment & Management
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Agro-ecological zones and Resource Management Domains (RMDs) in relation to land-use planning
  • V: Looking ahead
  • Land-use trends in Europe: simulation, presentation and scenario evaluation of future options
  • Long term comprehensive evaluation strategies for spatial planning, design and management
  • List of authors
  • Spatial conflicts in transport policies: an exploration of the perspectives of regional and local actors
  • An algorithm for computing multiple attribute additive value measurement ranges under a hierarchy of the criteria: application to farm or rangeland management decisions
  • Using decision panels to evaluate hydropower development projects
  • Improving decision-making for land-use management: key ideas for an integrated approach based on MCA negotiation forums
  • IV: Spatial information in land-use management
  • Multi-criteria and multi-objective decision making for land allocation using GIS
  • Map transformation and aggregation methods for spatial decision support
  • Multi-criteria analysis and Geographic Information Systems: analysis of natural areas and ecological distributions
  • Multicriterion planning of protected-area buffer zones: an application to Mexico’s Izta-Popo national park
  • Land-use management and the path towards sustainability
  • I: Problem structuring for land-use management
  • Conflicts between conservation goals and land use for exotic forest plantations in South Africa
  • Structuring the process of choosing rice varieties at the south of Brazil
  • II: The multiple dimensions of land-use management
  • Rural landscape and economic results of the farm; a multi-objective approach
  • Multicriteria evaluation of sustainable agricultural land use: a case study of Lesvos
  • Multicriteria evaluation methods in renewable resource management: integrated water management under drought conditions
  • Assessment, evaluation and allocation of funds to infrastructure projects: the case of the road network in Lombardy (Italy)
  • A farm multicriteria analysis model for the economic and environmental evaluation of agricultural land use
  • III: Multiple actors and multiple perspectives in land-use decisions