Despite the recognition given to the existence of multiple objectives in agricultural decision making, very little seems to have been done by agricultural economists to develop and use methodologies that model the decision situations realistically. This is particularly intriguing when one notices the amount of effort that has been devoted to the development and use of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques in disciplines such as management science, water resources research and forest planning. There are virtually no (text) books available in agricultural economics which explain the nature and structure of MCDM techniques and demonstrate how they can be used to model decisions involving multiple objectives. There is a need for such a book and this book attempts to fill the gap. It is divided into three parts. The first, comprising two chapters, is philosophical in nature and deals with the rationale behind the use of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques in decision making, and the fundamental concepts that must be understood to grasp the nature of these methods.
- ISBN10 0444874089
- ISBN13 9780444874085
- Publish Date 1 May 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 November 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Elsevier Science Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 258
- Language English