Various decision support methods are used to support the sustainable use of natural resources, but there is little evidence about these methods’ actual performances. In this study, 35 carefully selected papers assessing the sustainable use of natural resources were evaluated. The evaluated papers utilized one of the following methods: optimization, costbenefit analysis (CBA) and monetary valuat...

When it comes to decision making in the field of environmental policy, there is still a lack of useful decision aid methods. This paper intends to show how multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) as an useful decision aid method could help to reduce inefficiencies in macro-related environmentaleconomic-social decision making. MCDA methods differ from conventional methods as they are taking into...

The choice among alternative water supply sources is generally based on the fundamental objective of cost minimisation. There is, however, a need to consider sustainability, the environment and social implications in regional water resources planning, in addition to economics. In order to achieve this, multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) techniques can be used. There are a large number of M...

Public sector procurement is governed by laws and regulations enforcing a rigid structure with multiple criteria for assessing and selecting suppliers. This paper analyses legal and operational requirements of public sector e-procurement of the Maldives. The research was based on a desktop review of traditional academic sources as well as gray literature to identify legal and fiscal constraints...

Maps are often used as decision support tools in both, desktop geographic information systems (GIS) and mobile GIS environments. The decision support capabilities of current location-based services (LBS) are limited to navigation support and database querying with no analytic evaluation of the attractiveness of alternative destinations being offered. This chapter demonstrates how LBS can be ext...

The selection of metrics for ecosystem restoration programs is critical for improving the quality and utility of design and monitoring programs, informing adaptive management actions, and characterizing project success. The metrics selection process, that in practice is left to the subjective judgment of stakeholders, is often complex and should simultaneously take into account monitoring data,...

Geographic information science (GIS) and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) disciplines combine to provide valuable insights which guide decision-makers evaluating complex spatial criteria and alternatives, especially when there are conflicting stakeholder values and objectives. Although GIS and MCDA methods have been integrated to support forward-looking decision analyses, there is also ad...

The choice of the localization of a urban infrastructure is a complex problem of the multicriterion decision aid (MCDA). To deal with this situation, several authors have demonstrated the interest of the association of the geographical information systems (GIS) and the MCDA. This association permits to manage the information of spatial reference, and at the same time to apply new methods of MCD...

A promising approach to environmental assessment and decision making analyses is based on integrating Multicriteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and GIS tools. Integration of GIS and MCDA tools can be potentially achieved through interoperability, where these tools can exchange relevant information to tackle a particular environmental problem. However, the problem of semantic heterogeneity caused b...

Mobile cloud computing (MCC) is becoming a popular mobile technology that aims to augment local resources of mobile devices, such as energy, computing, and storage, by using available cloud services and functionalities. The offloading process is one of the techniques used in MCC to enhance the capabilities of mobile devices by moving mobile data and computationintensive operations to cloud plat...