A variety of MCDA methods exist, each having been developed for a specific domain of application. This text shows that many methods can be used in the environmental management problem. It considers MCDA in environmental managements, and various specific MCDA methods, such as neural nets and ARGUS.

There is a demand for aids to decision making from different scientific disciplines in the assessment and management of environmental problems. Since such problems cannot be solved on the basis of one criterion of choice, that is by the optimization of a single criterion, multicriteria decision aids (MCDA) have to be used. There is a variety of MCDA methods, each having been developed for a specific domain of application. Here it is shown that many methods can be used in the environmental management problem. The book is divided into three sections. Section 1 is concerned with MCDA in environmental managements, and is subdivided into sections covering general aspects, environmental planning, waste management and energy management. Section 2 contains three papers: Environment, social choices and intergenerational equity; Indicators for sustainable agriculture and rural development, and tools for analysis; and An ecosystem and its equilibrium points. Section 3 contains contributions on various specific MCDA methods, such as neural nets, ARGUS, AHP, SURMESURE, morphological theories, and rough-set sorting.

MULTIPLE CRITERIA AID FOR DECISION IN ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: Part 1 General Contributions: Multicriteria Evaluation in Environmental Management - Why and How? G. Munda, P. Nijkamp, P. Rietveld. Multiparametric Analysis for Industrial Strategies Oriented towards Environmental Protection
B. Gailly, M. Installe. Multicriteria Aspects of Environmental Indices
D. Schweigert. Part 2 Environmental Planning: A Reference Framework for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Processes
P. Molina, M.F. Norese. Evaluation multicritere - une approche qualitative? B. Fustier. Multicriterial Decisions for Air Pollution Reduction in Urban Regions
N. Model, U. Six, A. Wittmuess, J. Gonzales. Aide a la decision en matiere d'environnement - Cas de la depollution de la rade de Brest
B. Archieri, S. Hicheri, J.P. Barthelemy. Part 3 Waste Management: The Use of MAPPAC and PRAGMA Methods to Support Decision on Industrial Waste Management
M. Paruccini, B. Matarazzo. The Choice of a Solid Waste Management System by Using the ELECTRE III Decision-Aid Method
J. Hokkanen, P. Salminen. Impact sur l'environnement des rejets de phosphogypse des unites SIAPE et SAEPE a Gabes, Tunisie
T. Loukil Moalla. Part 4 Energy Management: Evaluation environnemental d'une ligne a haute tension - une methode multicritere
A. Rousseau, J.-M. Martel. Energy Planning and Trade-Offs between Environmental and Economic Criteria
G. Mavrotas, D, Diakoulaki, D. Assimacopoulos. CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: Environment, Social Choices and Intergenerational Equity
P. Kunsch. Indicators for Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development, and Tools for Analysis
F. Petry. An Ecosystem and its Equilibrium Points
A. Scarelli, L. Venzi. CONTRIBUTIONS ON MULTIPLE CRITERIA AID FOR DECISION: Segmentation Problems and Neural Networks
G. Balestra, A. Ostanello. ARGUS - A New Multiple Criteria Method based on the General Idea of Outranking
W. de Keyser, P. Peeters. How to Assess the Weights of the Criteria in the AHP
A. Giangrande. SURMESURE - an Instrument for Representation and Interpretation of ELECTRE and PROMETHEE Methods Results
J. Pictet, L.Y. Maystre, J. Simos. Aide a la decision et theories morphologiques
J. Fichefet. Rough-Set Sorting of Firm according to Bankruptcy Risk
R. Slownski, C. Zopounidis.