Public Participation System on Decision Making Process in France Consideration for Japanese Style

DeltaM - a Decision Support System for the Public Participation in Decision Making in Spatial Planning

Decision making in forest management with consideration of stochastic prices

  The optimal harvesting policy is calculated as a function of the entering stock, the price state, the harvesting cost, and the rate of interest in the capital market. In order to determine the optimal harvest schedule, the growth function and stumpage price process are estimated for the Swedish mixed species forests. The stumpage price is assumed to follow a stochastic Markov process. A stoch...

Wind Power Deployment: The Role of Public Participation in the Decision-Making Process in Ontario, Canada

A wider use of renewable energy is emerging as a viable solution to meet the increasing demand for global energy while contributing to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. However, current literature on renewable energy, particularly on wind power, highlights the social barriers and public opposition to renewable energy investment. One solution to overcome the public opposition, which is ...

Making Decision Support System for Utilization of Biogas in Iran

The use of renewable energy sources is often suggested to be a good solution for climate change and the dependency to fossil fuel. Biogas utilization is a one of these promising options that can mitigate these problems since biogas is produced by the fermentation of waste, so is rich in methane and has the same characteristics as natural gas. Biogas has increasingly been noticed in different co...

Enhancing Participation Process in Public Decision Making with MCDA and Trust Modeling

Multi-criteria decision analysis provides an effective and valuable method of articulating and structuring deliberations within public participation. Public participation means that citizens are involved in the public decision making that has an effect on them. In order to encourage participation while integrating the deliberative perspectives from various participants in public sector, we shou...