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Propriety of Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Human Affairs: Social Implementation and Personal Behavior

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Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis in Regional Planning

Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library ((TDLB,volume 10))

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Difficulty in social implementation of multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA), particularly in social science fields, is a major trap to overcome in development of this method, and also is a major source of criticism against the effectiveness of MCDA. This chapter concerns conceptual reflection upon how the difficulty can be coped with.

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© 1988 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland

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Seo, F., Sakawa, M. (1988). Propriety of Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Human Affairs: Social Implementation and Personal Behavior. In: Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis in Regional Planning. Theory and Decision Library, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4035-2_13

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