This paper describes a systematic process for examining complex public policy choices that
has been developed and refined over the past 50 years and is often called policy analysis …

Abstract The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) of Saaty (1980) is a widely used method for
MCDA, presumably because it efcitates preference information from the decision makers in …

Focus groups were formerly associated with market research but have recently gained some
measure of social scientific respectability. In this article, I briefly recapitulate the history of …

Aim of this paper is to investigate the application of cost benefit analysis methods in the
decisionmaking on a desired flood protection strategy in the Netherlands. After a discussion …

This paper aims at specifying the contribution of OR to environmental planning. To this
purpose a framework for classifying relevant literature is proposed, according to which the …

To indicate the general background of this thesis the historical development of risk
management (section 1.1), the interpretation of risk and uncertainty (section 1.2) and the risk …

Nowadays cities are seen as motors for the sustainable development of European regions,
and are thus of crucial importance for the future of Europe as a whole. Because the social …

In this paper we show how applying an analytical framing of hegemony to policy making can
draw out strategic positioning and negotiation of the actors involved that would remain …

The Dutch Delta Program is currently developing new government policies for flood
protection and fresh water supply. Decision support instruments have to address the …

Modelling Coastal Vulnerability focuses on the vulnerability of societies in low lying coastal
and deltaic environments to tropical cyclonic storms and floods. Models that explore …