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Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

  • 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. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Preliminaries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. GIScience, Spatial Analysis, and Decision Support

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 3-21
    3. Introduction to GIS-MCDA

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 23-54
    4. Development of GIS-MCDA

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 55-77
  3. GIS-MCDA: Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
    2. Multiattribute Decision Analysis Methods

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 81-121
    3. Multiobjective Optimization Methods

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 123-143
    4. Heuristic Methods

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 145-189
    5. Dealing with Uncertainties

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 191-221
    6. GIS-MCDA for Group Decision Making

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 223-247
    7. Scale Issues and GIS-MCDA

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 249-266
  4. Spatial MCDA: Technologies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
    2. Desktop GIS-MCDA

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 269-292
    3. Geographic Visualization and MCDA

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 293-309
    4. Web-Based and Mobile GIS-MCDA

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 311-324
    5. Conclusions

      • Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner
      Pages 325-331

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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eBook USD 189.00
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Softcover Book USD 249.99
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Hardcover Book USD 249.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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