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Multicriteria Analysis for Land-Use Management

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Euro Beinat

    1. Institute for Environmental Studies and Faculty of Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Peter Nijkamp

    1. Faculty of Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Environment & Management (EMAN, volume 9)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Land-use management and the path towards sustainability

    1. Land-use management and the path towards sustainability

      • Euro Beinat, Peter Nijkamp
      Pages 1-13

  3. Problem structuring for land-use management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Conflicts between conservation goals and land use for exotic forest plantations in South Africa

      • Theodor J. Stewart, Alison Joubert
      Pages 17-31

    3. Structuring the process of choosing rice varieties at the south of Brazil

      • Carlos A. Bana e Costa, Leonardo Ensslin, Alessandro P. Costa
      Pages 33-45

  4. The multiple dimensions of land-use management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. Rural landscape and economic results of the farm; a multi-objective approach

      • Francesco Marangon, Tiziano Tempesta
      Pages 49-60

    3. Multicriteria evaluation of sustainable agricultural land use: a case study of Lesvos

      • Gerda Hermanides, Peter Nijkamp
      Pages 61-78

    4. Multicriteria evaluation methods in renewable resource management: integrated water management under drought conditions

      • Giuseppe Munda, Massimo Parruccini, Giuseppe Rossi
      Pages 79-93

    5. Assessment, evaluation and allocation of funds to infrastructure projects: the case of the road network in Lombardy (Italy)

      • Giulio Giannerini, Eliot Laniado, Giorgio Stagni
      Pages 95-113

    6. A farm multicriteria analysis model for the economic and environmental evaluation of agricultural land use

      • Carlo Giupponi, Paolo Rosato
      Pages 115-136

  6. Spatial information in land-use management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
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    2. Multi-criteria and multi-objective decision making for land allocation using GIS

      • J. Ronald Eastman, Hong Jiang, James Toledano
      Pages 227-251

    3. Map transformation and aggregation methods for spatial decision support

      • Ron Janssen, Marjan van Herwijnen
      Pages 253-270

    4. Multi-criteria analysis and Geographic Information Systems: analysis of natural areas and ecological distributions

      • Andrea Patrono
      Pages 271-292
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About this book

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 aircraft. The complexity of this puzzle, and the complex task of managing its evolution, became the topic of conversation for the rest of the flight. It also became the topic of this book. Land-use management and multicriteria analysis offer countless opportunities for mutual reinforcement. These two fields have developed largely independently, but a trend towards the exploration of their synergies is now emerging. This is clear from the recent literature on land-use management, spatial analysis and spatial planning, which increasingly includes references to multicriteria methodologies and decision analysis. At the same time, a growing share of multicriteria applications now focus on environmental and land-use issues. This book includes contributions from authors coming from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. All together they highlight current issues in multicriteria analysis and land-use management from theoretical, methodological and practical perspectives.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Environmental Studies and Faculty of Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Euro Beinat

  • Faculty of Economics, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter Nijkamp

About the editors

Professor Dr P. Nijkamp has received the 1996 Spinoza Award, an annual award to honour outstanding scientific merit and to stimulate innovative future research.

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