Full Description
This book is focused on the application of methodological approaches and systems of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) in the field of resource management. Resource management constitutes a major challenge of modern times. The book comprehensively examines cases of human resources, material resources and natural resources in particular. It focuses on the efficient utilization of these resources to achieve sustainability of economic, environmental and social aspects. Also, the book presents methodological tools which aim to support the decision making at operational, executive and strategic levels.The book presents recent results of scientific research in the field of MCDA and its applications to resource management. It investigates the resource management challenges and introduces innovative methodological approaches and systems for addressing these resources management issues.
Contents
The Multicriteria Features of Environmental Footprint Assessment Methodology for Refractory Materials in the Circular Economy: Issues, perspectives and new directions.- Fire Disaster Recovery and Resource Allocation Enabled by Firefighters' Sustainable UAV Technology in Smart Cities.- Resource Management - A Bi-Objective methodological approach for routing in crisis situations.- Urban space quality evaluation using multi-criteria decision analysis-based framework.- Multicriteria Disagregation - Aggregation approach for the evaluation of warm water lakes.- Agricultural water management in the context of Water-Enegy-Land-Food NEXUS.- Recommending open educational resources using weighted linear combination.- User comments as a resource to rank with multiple criteria: The case of TripAdvisor Athens's restaurants.
