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A textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in applied geographic information systems (GIS) and quantitative analysis. After introducing GIS and multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA), Malczewski (geography, University of Western Ontario) presents the elements of spatial MCDA, and discusses how the GIS and MCDM methodologies can be integrated into multicriteria- spatial decision support systems (MC-SDSS). Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR


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From selecting sites for new hospitals, schools, and factories, to managing forests and rivers, to creating and maintaining highways and bridges, public and private organizations are often called on to make decisions on geographic questions that involve a multitude of alternatives and often conflicting evaluation criteria. This book presents a formal mechanism for dealing with these situations, capturing the information in a Geographic Information System and processing it to derive optimal recommendations for confronting these complex questions.

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From selecting sites for new hospitals, schools, and factories, to managing forests and rivers, to creating and maintaining highways and bridges, public and private organizations are often called on to make decisions on geographic questions that involve a multitude of alternatives and often conflicting evaluation criteria. This book presents a formal mechanism for dealing with these situations, capturing the information in a Geographic Information System and processing it to derive optimal recommendations for confronting these complex questions.

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