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This book presents the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm for modelling agricultural decision-making in three parts. The first part, comprising two chapters, is philosophical in nature and deals with the concepts that define the underlying structure of the MCDM paradigm. The second pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Romero, Carlos, 1946-
Other Authors: Rehman, T. (Tahir)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2003.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Developments in agricultural economics ; 11.
Subjects:
Agriculture > Economic aspects > Decision making.
Agriculture > Aspect �economique > Prise de d�ecision.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > Crop Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > General.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part one: Multiple criteria in agricultural decisions
  • Main features of the multiple criteria decision-making paradigm
  • Some basic concepts
  • Part two: Multiple criteria decision-making techniques
  • Goal programming
  • Multiobjective programming
  • Compromise programming
  • The interactive multiple criteria decision-making approach
  • Risk and uncertainty and the multiple criteria decision-making techniques
  • Part three: Case studies
  • A compromise programming model for the agrarian reform programme in Andalusia, Spain
  • Livestock ration formulation and multiple criteria decision-making techniques
  • Livestock ration formulation via goal programming with penalty functions
  • Optimum fertiliser use via goal programming with penalty functions.

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