Natural resource management decision making generally requires the analysis of a variety of environmental, social and economic information, incorporating value judgement and policy and management goals. Justifiable decisions depend on the logical and transparent combination and analysis of information. This chapter describes the application of spatial multi-criteria analysis to natural resource...

The 2002 Winter Olympics women's figure skating competition is used as a case study to illustrate some of the limitations, pitfalls, and practical difficulties of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). The paper compares several widely used models for synthesizing the multiple attributes into a single aggregate value. The various MCDA models can provide conflicting rankings of the alternative...

A hybrid approach integrating OWA (Ordered Weighted Averaging) aggregation into TOPSIS (technique for order performance by similarity to ideal solution) is proposed to tackle multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) problems. First, the setting of extreme points (ideal and anti-ideal points) in TOPSIS is redefined and extended for handling the multiple extreme points situation where a decisio...

Abstract Freight transportation is of high importance and used to determine the region’s economy. Typically, effective freight systems are related decreasing costs moving goods from logistics facilities. The city Baghdad suffers many problems with land transport system, especially goods, among important things reduce current burden on network find most suitable sites for establishment warehouse...