Land Development in the Vicinity of Hazardous Facilities: A Compromise Assignment Procedure

H Briassoulis
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H Briassoulis: Department of Human Geography, University of the Aegean, Karantoni 17, Mytilene 81100, Lesvos, Greece

Environment and Planning B, 1995, vol. 22, issue 5, 509-525

Abstract: A procedure based on the assignment problem formulation and the paradigm of compromise programming is presented to aid in the determination of ‘compromise assignments’ of land-development types to parcels of land in the vicinity of hazardous facilities, which minimize risk to human health while maximizing land-development benefits. The basic procedure is described and illustrated with a hypothetical example, special cases and treatment of goal trade-offs are discussed, and a case-study application of the procedure is presented. The proposed approach provides a simple land-development decision aid tool which addresses the question of trade-offs between risk and development benefits; it can accommodate other decision criteria as well as alternative preference structures of the decisionmakers; and it applies to similar multiple-criteria decision problems.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1068/b220509

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