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How are large-scale siting decisions made in practice? H. Kunreuther, J. Linnerooth, and some of their colleagues (1983) investigated large-scale siting decisions while working in the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (ELASA). The problem under study was the decision process used to site liquified energy gas (LEG) facilities in four countries: the Federal Republic of Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Different countries have different institutional settings for deciding how siting choices are made. Despite major differences in approaches, Kunreuther and Linnerooth developed a general framework for describing siting decisions.
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Larichev, O.I., Olson, D.L. (2001). Methods and Decision Processes: Descriptive and Normative. In: Multiple Criteria Analysis in Strategic Siting Problems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3245-0_2
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