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In policy arenas, the major virtue of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is the possibility of dealing with a plurality of multidimensional features both at technical and social levels. However, in this process...

Since the public debate on nuclear energy and its risks and advantages is very polarized in the EU, the potential for a complex and difficult decision-making process on SMRs is very high. The goal of SMCE...

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International Atomic Energy Agency report on Integrated Approaches for the Management of Environmental Site Remediation Processes

Non-compensatory aggregation rules are applied in a variety of problems such as voting theory, multi-criteria analysis, composite indicators, web ranking algorithms and so on. A major...

In the area of environmental and resource management and in policies aiming at sustainable development, conflicting issues and interests are the normal state of affairs. Mathematical approaches cannot of course be...

Variance based methods have assessed themselves as versatile and effective among the various available techniques for sensitivity analysis of model output. Practitioners can in principle describe...

SOCRATES (SOcial multi-CRiteria AssessmenT of European policieS) is a software tool explicitly designed for impact assessment problems. Three main components constitute the core of SOCRATES: multi-criteria...