Over the last forty years, new methods and methodologies have been developed to deal
with wicked problems or “messes”. They are structured and rigorous but non-mathematical …

Due to the frequently occurring disasters in the world, emergency management is an
attractive research area aiming to stabilize the disasters and reduce the potential damage to …

This book is a comprehensive guide to several aspects of risk, including information
systems, disaster management, supply chain and disaster management perspectives. A …

MCDA is increasingly used to support participatory and collaborative processes. In this
paper, we describe and evaluate four real-life environmental planning projects where MCDA …

This paper concerns composite decision support based on combining cost-benefit analysis
(CBA) with multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) for the assessment of economic as well …

The paper aims to demonstrate the importance of behavioural issues in environmental
modelling. These issues can relate both to the modeler and to the modelling process …

The most common methodology applied so far to the evaluation of transport systems has
been conventional cost-benefit analysis (CBA)(Janic, 2003), which supported by traffic-and …

Participatory modeling (PM) is a craft that is often learned by training 'on the job'and
mastered through years of practice. There is little explicit knowledge available on identifying …

This paper develops a model for assessing the risks associated with the evacuation process
in response to potential chemical accidents, based on which a multi-objective evacuation …

Important decisions are often taken by groups of decision makers who need to make choices
among several alternatives, based on an appraisal of how the alternatives are likely to …