Multicriteria analysis : applications to water and environment management /
by Mahdi Zarghami and Ferenc Szidarovzky
- Heidelberg : Springer, 2011.
- xi, 159 p.
1 Introduction to Multi Criteria Decision Analysis-- 1.1 Decision Analysis -- 1.2 The Components of MCDA Problems -- 1.3 Classification of MCDA Problems -- 2 The Hierarchy of the Criteria -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Criteria -- 2.3 Constructing the Hierarchy of the Criteria -- 3 Solution of Discrete MCDA Problems -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2Dominance Method -- 3.3 Sequential Optimization (SO) -- 3.4 The -Constraint Method ( CM) -- 3.5 Simple Additive Weighting (SAW)-- 3.6 Distance Based Methods (DBM) -- 3.7 The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) -- 3.8 Other Methods -- 3.9 Case Studies-- 3.10 Discussions-- 4 Solution of Continuous MCDA Problems-- 4.1 Introduction4.2 Dominance Method-- 4.3 Sequential Optimization-- 4.4 The -Constraint Method-- 4.5 Simple Additive Weighting-- 4.6 Distance Based Methods-- 4.7 Other Methods4-- .8 Case Studies-- 4.9 Discussions-- 5 Social Choice Methods-- 5.1 Introduction-- 5.2 Social Choice Methods-- 5.3 Case Studies-- 5.4 Consensus on the Results-- 5.5 Discussions-- 6 Conflict Resolution Methods--- 6.1 Introduction-- 6.2 The Nash Bargaining Solution-- 6.3 The Non-symmetric Nash Solution-- 6.4 Area Monotonic Solution-- 6.5 Equal Loss Solution-- 6.6 Kalai-Smorodinsky Solution-- 6.7 Case Studies-- 6.8 Discussions-- 7 MCDA Problems under Uncertainty-- 7.1 Introduction-- 7.2 Probabilistic Methods-- 7.3 Fuzzy Methods-- 7.4 Probabilistic-Fuzzy MCDA Model-- s7.5 Case StudiesReferences Appendix 1 Index
At the end of each chapter detailed case studies are given in water and environment management including inter-basin water transfer, urban water management, water allocation, groundwater quality management, forest treatment, ranking water resources projects, reservoir planning, water distribution network design and long-term watershed management.