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The purpose of this chapter is to show the nature of a complex project outlining the structure that many companies, entrepreneurs, government agencies, etc. have adopted. The chapter presents a series of seven actual projects executed in different countries and pertaining to different areas as diverse as river basing planning, environmental indicators, urban development, municipal policies, bridges repair scheduling, land use and metallurgical development and solved by Linear Programming. Each case has its own characteristics which are detailed and briefly commented on, so as to give the reader an idea of the potential of this tool.
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Fish ladder: Contrivance that carries water around a dam through a series of stepped baffles or boxes and thus facilitates the migration of fish; also known as fish way. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Tables 8.1a and b are two views of the same table, and it has been partitioned because its length related with the number of projects or alternatives. Thus, Table 8.1a details projects from 1 to 10, while Table 8.1b considers projects from 11 to 20.
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What is a framework for indicators? It is a theoretical structure, used for:
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Systematising data and information,
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Selecting indicators,
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Making explicit the existing interactions between different issues. Several different frameworks have been developed, each one addressing a specific purpose, but probably the most used framework is the OECD approach known as P-S-R, or Pressure, Stress, Response. It was developed to link Pressures on the environment by pointing out the human actions or factors (‘stressors’) that exert pressure on the environment. The Stress refers to the effects produced by these stressors, and the Response is what is being done to correct these effects.
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From the ‘Central Place Theory’, developed by German geographer Walter Christaller, who tried to explain the location of human settlements and markets. The central place in this theory is a city that provides services to the rest of the area and is usually identified as the most populated community, which normally is the location for regional offices as well as an administrative centre.
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Costs for geometric standards. Refers to costs related with the geometric design of the whole undertaking, that is including not only the bridge structure but all other elements such as traffic approaching and leaving the bridge, distribution, loads, etc. Naturally geometric costs are higher than just structural costs.
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Munier, N. (2011). Planning and Solving Actual Complex Projects. In: A Strategy for Using Multicriteria Analysis in Decision-Making. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1512-7_8
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