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Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

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  • © 2015

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  • The first book to comprehensively cover the integrated study of GIS-MCDA approaches at an advanced level
  • Invaluable to students and lecturers alike
  • Provides new insights to this fast moving field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Geographic Information Science (AGIS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Preliminaries

  2. GIS-MCDA: Methods

  3. Spatial MCDA: Technologies

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About this book

This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) into Geographic Information Science (GIScience), to provide a comprehensive account of theories, methods, technologies and tools for tackling spatial decision problems and to demonstrate how the GIS-MCDA approaches can be used in a wide range of planning and management situations.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Western Ontario Dept. Geography, London, Canada

    Jacek Malczewski

  • Ryerson University Department of Geography, Toronto, Canada

    Claus Rinner

About the authors

Jacek Maczewski is professor of geography at the University of Western Ontario, Claus Rinner is associate professor of geography at Ryerson University.

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