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The past we inherit; the future we create, the saying goes. To create a credible future that is founded on our global values and priorities we need to learn how to deal with the immense variety of factors and with the expanse of the many dimensions of this variety.
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Saaty, T.L., Vargas, L.G. (2013). An Innovative Orders-of-Magnitude Approach to AHP-Based Multicriteria Decision Making: Prioritizing Divergent Intangible Humane Acts . In: Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 195. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7279-7_14
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