Title: Multicriteria analysis for environmental planning and assessment /
Authors: Geneletti, Davide
Year: 2019
Subjects: City planning; Environmental impact analysis; Decision making; ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning.; NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.; SCIENCE / Environmental Science.; City planning; Decision making; Environmental impact analysis
Abstract: "Multicriteria analysis (MCA) has been increasingly used in environmental decision-making to support the identification of suitable courses of action, by integrating factual information coming for example from field surveys or impact modelling, with value-based information collected through stakeholder engagement This book provides an introduction to key concepts of MCA, and a series of case studies that illustrate the application of MCA to a variety of environmental decision-making problems. Topics include Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), protected areas planning and zoning, tourist infrastructures planning, forest restoration and nature conservation. Techniques described in the different cases include GIS-based MCA, sensitivity analysis, optimisation techniques, land suitability analysis, and others. The book provides a compact reference that can be used by researchers as a key resource offering an update and overview of the field, as well as by practitioners and planners/de cision makers as a source of inspiration for their activity. Additionally, the book will be a suitable textbook for both under and post-graduate courses in a broad range of curricula, including Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Planning and Architecture, Geography, Economics, Decision Sciences. "}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":769,"3":{"1":0},"11":3,"12":0}">Multicriteria analysis (MCA) has been increasingly used in environmental decision-making to support the identification of suitable courses of action, by integrating factual information coming for example from field surveys or impact modelling, with value-based information collected through stakeholder engagement This book provides an introduction to key concepts of MCA, and a series of case studies that illustrate the application of MCA to a variety of environmental decision-making problems. Topics include Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), protected areas planning and zoning, tourist infrastructures planning forest restoration and nature conservation. Techniques described in the different cases include GIS-based MCA, sensitivity analysis, optimisation techniques, land suitability analysis, and others. The book provides a compact reference that can be used by researchers as a key resource offering an update and overview of the field, as well as by practitioners and planners/decision makers as a source of inspiration for their activity. Additionally, the book will be a suitable textbook for both under and post-graduate courses in a broad range of curricula, including Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Planning and Architecture, Geography, Economics, Decision Sciences. </span> "--
Contents: Machine generated contents note: <span data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Principles of Multicriteria Analysis; Chapter 2. A Review of MCA Applications for Nature Conservation; Chapter 3. Landfill Site Selection: Combining Spatial MCA with Stakeholder Analysis; Chapter 4. Protected Area Zoning: Integrating Spatial MCA and Multi-objective Evaluation; Chapter 5. Forest Landscape Restoration: Applying MCA to Design and Compare Options; Chapter 6. Impact Assessment of Ski Areas: Combining GIS Indicators with MCA; Chapter 7. Conclusions; References; Annex 1; Index."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":769,"3":{"1":0},"11":3,"12":0}">Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Principles of Multicriteria Analysis; Chapter 2. A Review of MCA Applications for Nature Conservation; Chapter 3. Landfill Site Selection: Combining Spatial MCA with Stakeholder Analysis; Chapter 4. Protected Area Zoning: Integrating Spatial MCA and Multi-objective Evaluation; Chapter 5. Forest Landscape Restoration: Applying MCA to Design and Compare Options; Chapter 6. Impact Assessment of Ski Areas: Combining GIS Indicators with MCA; Chapter 7. Conclusions; References; Annex 1; Index.</span>.