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Multicriteria Evaluation in a Fuzzy Environment

Theory and Applications in Ecological Economics

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  • © 1995

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Authors:
  1. Giuseppe Munda

    1. Department of Economics, Institute of Regional Economics, Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Environmental Issues and Evaluation Methods

    1. Environmental Issues and Evaluation Methods

      • Giuseppe Munda
      Pages 1-13

  3. Theoretical Analysis of Cost-Benefit Analysis and Multicriteria Evaluation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. From Environmental Economics to Ecological Economics

      • Giuseppe Munda
      Pages 17-38

    3. Cost-Benefit Analysis

      • Giuseppe Munda
      Pages 39-56

    4. Multiple Criteria Evaluation Methods

      • Giuseppe Munda
      Pages 57-90

  4. Multicriteria Evaluation in a Fuzzy Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91
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    2. Fuzzy Uncertainty in Decision Models

      • Giuseppe Munda
      Pages 93-115

    3. Comparison of Fuzzy Sets: A New Semantic Distance

      • Giuseppe Munda
      Pages 117-130

    4. Multicriteria Evaluation in a Fuzzy Environment: The Naiade Method

      • Giuseppe Munda
      Pages 131-148

    5. A Fuzzy Cluster Procedure for Environmental Conflict Analysis

      • Giuseppe Munda
      Pages 149-168

    6. Sensitivity Analysis in the NAIADE Method

      • Giuseppe Munda
      Pages 169-192

  5. Application to a Real-World Environmental Management Problem

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. The River Po Basin Environmental Policy. Background Information and Analytical Framework

      • Giuseppe Munda
      Pages 195-211

    3. The Po Delta Natural Park: The “Boscone Della Mesola” Environmental Management Problem

      • Giuseppe Munda
      Pages 213-232

    4. Conclusions: Retrospect and Prospect

      • Giuseppe Munda
      Pages 233-242

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 243-257
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About this book

This book is the result of some years of research carried out at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam and at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. The awareness of actual and potential conflicts between economic progress in production, consumption, and technology and the environment has led to the concept of "sustainable development", implying that economic and ecological values are well balanced in evaluation and decision making. The linkages between ecosystems and economic systems are the focus of ecological economics. In ecological economics, a multidimensional approach to economic and policy-making is emphasised. In this book, the introduction of multicriteria decision aid techniques in the framework of ecological economics is widely discussed. Since such techniques are based on a "constructive" rationality and allow one to take into account conflictual, multidimensional, incommensurable and uncertain effects of decisions, they can be considered perfectly consistent with the methodological foundations of ecological economics. Since here the assumption is accepted that efficiency, equity and sustainability are the three conflictual values of economics, a mathematical procedure able to deal with these issues in an operational framework is developed, with a particular view on imprecise information in a practical environmental planning context. Given the problem of the differences in the measurement levels of the variables used for economic-ecological modelling, multicriteria methods able to deal with mixed information (both qualitative and quantitative measurements) can be considered particularly useful. Another problem related to the available information concerns the uncertainty (stochastic and/or fuzzy) contained in this information.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, Institute of Regional Economics, Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Giuseppe Munda

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Multicriteria Evaluation in a Fuzzy Environment

  • Book Subtitle: Theory and Applications in Ecological Economics

  • Authors: Giuseppe Munda

  • Series Title: Contributions to Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49997-5

  • Publisher: Physica Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7908-0892-6Published: 17 November 1995

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-49997-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-1933

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 255

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods

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