Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Development A Resource Book
In recent years, much work has been done in formulating and clarifying the concept of sustainable development and related theoretical and research issues. Now, the challenge has shifted to designing and stimulating processes of effective planning and deci
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DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT A Resource Book of Methods and Applications
Gregory (Grzegorz) E. Kersten Zbigniew Mikolajuk Anthony Gar-On Yeh
Editors
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW
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0-306-47542-1 0-7923-8582-9
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For Margaret Kersten, Anna Mikolajuk and Brenda Yeh with thanks for their inspiration and encouragement. Thank you!
Contents
Preface
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Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Development: An Overview Tung X. Bui
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I. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND DECISION MAKING 1. Sustainable Development and Decision Support Systems Zbigniew Mikolajuk and Anthony Gar-On Yeh
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2. Decision Making and Decision Support Gregory E. Kersten
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3. Decision Support with Geographic Information Systems Anthony Gar-On Yeh
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II. APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES 4. Decision Support for Sustainable Land Development: A Case Study of Dongguan Anthony Gar-On Yeh and Xia Li 5. Water Resource Management: A Case Study for EcoKnowMICS Eduardo D. Gamboa 6. Decision Support for Incentive Strategies: A Rural Development Application in Central Africa Benoit Gailly and Michel Installé
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7. Efficient Strategies: An Application in Water Quality Planning Alexander V. Lotov, Lioubov V. Bourmistrova, and Vladimir A. Bushenkov
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8. Integrated Rural Energy Decision Support Systems Shaligram Pokharel and Muthu Chandrashekar
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9. DSS for Sustainable Land Management: A South-East Asia Case Mohammad Rais, Samuel Gameda, Eric T. Craswell. Adisak Sajjapongse, and Hans-Dieter Bechstedt 10. Mapping Critical Factors for the Survival of Firms: A Case Study in the Brazilian Textile Industry Carlos A. Bana e Costa, Émerson C. Corrêa, Leonardo Ensslin and Jean-Claude Vansnick 11. Learning Negotiations with Web-based Systems: The Base of IIMB T. R. Madanmohan, Gregory E. Kersten, Sunil J. Noronha, Margaret Kersten and David Cray 12. Natural Resource Conservation and Crop Management Expert Systems Ahmed Rafea
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III. RESEARCH ISSUES 13. Rule Induction in Constructing Knowledge-Based Decision Support Tu Bao Ho
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14. Organizational Memory Information Systems A Case-based Approach to Decision Support Helen G. Smith, Frada V. Burstein, Ramita Sharma and Dayo Sowunmi
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15. Software Internationalization Architectures for DSS Patrick A.V. Hall
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16. Software Integration for Environmental Management Victor S. Chabanyuk and Olexandr V. Obvintsev
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17. Design of Decision Support Systems as Federated Information Systems David J. Abel, Kerry Taylor,
