Multicriteria analysis and geographical information systems: an application to agricultural land use in the netherlands

摘要: Regional and urban planning problems are often hard to solve for various reasons. Large amounts of data needed, due the number spatial units involved or range phenomena taken into account. Uncertainties kinds have an important influence on technological developments decisions policy makers at macrolevel. Another reason why these so difficult is that political conflicts between objectives intense. Geographical information systems been designed contribute solution such problems. For this purpose, GIS supplied with facilities analysis, modelling forecasting. Here, we consider integration another facility: multicriteria analysis (MCA), which aims analysing intensity nature criteria, generating compromise alternatives rankings according their degree attractiveness. Thus, linking MCA enables be analysed in a context.