Author(s)

N.S. Fleming & T.M. Daniell

Abstract

Decisions generally made by planners, designers, economists, engineers, and politicians occur in a multi-objective environment and are based upon non- standardised and imprecise data. In the past, projects were justified almost solely on economic grounds, with insufficient consideration of environmental and social issues. The shifting of societal values has placed greater emphasis upon careful management of the resources. Techniques are therefore required to deal quantitative and qualitative information. The MESA methodology has been developed to promote 'sustainable' planning decisions. Decisions are based upon a formal rigorous decision strategy involving Fuzzy Set Theor

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