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Abstract: To help protect the Rhine delta from North Sea floods, the Dutch installed sluices at Haringvliet in the late 1960s and converted the Haiingvliet-Hollandsch Diep-Biesbosch (HHB) estuary into a tidally-damped, fresh-water system. Two decades later, the Dutch Rijkswaterstaat commissioned a study of alternative policies for managing the sluices and removing contaminated bottom sediments, including policies which would at least partially restore estuarine conditions to the HHB. This paper describes the public policy analysis comprising that study, focussing on the role and successful application of formal multicriteria analysis (MCA), in particular the Analytic Hierarchy Process.
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Ridgley, M.A. (1994). Multicriteria Analysis of Estuary Restoration in the Rhine Delta. In: Tzeng, G.H., Wang, H.F., Wen, U.P., Yu, P.L. (eds) Multiple Criteria Decision Making. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2666-6_39
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