Progress in retail led regeneration: Implications for decision-makers

Retail-led Regeneration and Store Switching Behaviour

Retail-led regeneration of ‘food deserts’ has become accepted policy in the UK, although the impacts of such stores remain under-researched. It is assumed that residents will switch their shopping behaviour to the new store and then alter their purchasing patterns to include more healthy options. A preand post ‘intervention’ study in a deprived area and an equally deprived non-intervention area...

Estimating Price Variability in Agriculture: Implications for Decision-Makers

Using a stochastic version of the POLYSYS modeling framework, an examination of projected variability in agricultural prices, supply, demand, stocks, and incomes is conducted. Random yield and export shocks are introduced in each of 100 iterations of a ten-year simulation and planted acreage, production, total use, ending stock, stock-to-use, season average price, and net return results are pre...

Healthy Cities: The Impact of Food Retail-led Regeneration on Food Access, Choice and Retail Structure

The health, social and planning policy agendas which have focused on the issue of food deserts, food access and food choice provide the context for this study of the outcomes of a large scale food retail intervention in Springburn, Glasgow. Through an analysis of changing retail structure and foodscape health impacts on food provision, food choice and physical and economic accessibility. This i...

Interval-Valued Hesitant Fuzzy Method based on Group Decision Analysis for Estimating Weights of Decision Makers

In this paper, a new soft computing group decision method based on the concept of compromise ratio is introduced for determining decision makers (DMs)' weights through the group decision process under uncertainty. In this method, preferences and judgments of the DMs or experts are expressed by linguistic terms for rating the industrial alternatives among selected criteria as well as the relativ...

A hybrid decision making system using DEA and fuzzy models for supplier selection in the presence of multiple decision makers