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Multicriterion Optimization in Resources Planning

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Book cover Multicriteria Optimization in Engineering and in the Sciences

Part of the book series: Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Science and Engineering ((MCSENG,volume 37))

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Resource planning problems present many excellent examples of why multicriterion optimization (MCO) can be so useful in practice. These problems virtually always involve a public decision-making process, and they virtually never can be characterized as having a single criterion. The protection of the environment—a particular kind of resource planning problem—is by its very nature a multicriterion problem: the environment is being “protected from” economic activities. Thus, problems in environmental control are born out of conflict between criteria: economic development and environmental preservation. Resource problems, in general, exhibit these criteria and others, such as equity in the distribution of benefits and costs—the classic upstream-downstream conflict in water resource problems—and risk to human health.

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Cohon, J.L., Scavone, G., Solanki, R. (1988). Multicriterion Optimization in Resources Planning. In: Stadler, W. (eds) Multicriteria Optimization in Engineering and in the Sciences. Mathematical Concepts and Methods in Science and Engineering, vol 37. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3734-6_5

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