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Acknowledgments

Drs. Greg Kiker and Thomas Seager and Mr. Arun Varghese were early supporters of our efforts to incorporate MCDA into environmental assessment and management. Ivy Huang was instrumental in our second literature review and was kind enough to re-generate temporal trend presented in Fig. 2. Our current effort and this paper would not be possible without Matthew Bates, Zach Collier, and Cate Fox-Lent. Finally, we wish to thank Dr. Todd Bridges whose vision and enthusiasm increased MCDA methods in USA the Army Corps research enterprise from a single review paper in 2003 to today a multimillion dollar enterprise covering all USACE business lines, including navigation, flood management, climate change, assets management. Permission was granted by the USACE Chief of Engineers to publish this material. The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the individual authors and not those of the US Army, or other sponsor organizations.

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Keisler, J., Linkov, I. Environment models and decisions. Environ Syst Decis 34, 369–372 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-014-9515-4

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