Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Development: A Resource Book of Methods and Applications

Preface. Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Development: An Overview; T.X. Bui. I: Sustainable Development and Decision Making. 1. Sustainable Development and Decision Support Systems; Z. Mikolajuk, A. Gar-On Yeh. 2. Decision Making and Decision Support; G.E. Kersten. 3. Decision Support with Geographic Information Systems; A. Gar-On Yeh. II: Applications and Case Studies. 4. Decision Support for Sustainable Land Development: A Case Study of Dongguan; A. Gar-On Yeh, X. Li. 5. Water Resource Management: A Case Study for EcoKnowMICS; E.D. Gamboa. 6. Decision Support for Incentive Strategies: A Rural Development Application in Central Africa; B. Gailly, M. Installé. 7. Efficient Strategies: An Application in Water Quality Planning; A.V. Lotov, et al. 8. Integrated Rural Energy Decision Support Systems; S. Pokharel, M. Chandrashekar. 9. DSS for Sustainable Land Management: A South-East Asia Case; M. Rais, et al. 10. Mapping Critical Factors for the Survival of Firms: A Case Study in the Brazilian Textile Industry; C.A. Bana e Costa, et al. 11. Learning Negotiations with Web-based Systems: The Base of IIMB; T.R. Madanmohan, et al. 12. Natural Resource Conservation and Crop Management Expert Systems; A. Rafea. III: Research Issues. 13. Rule Induction in Constructing Knowledge-Based Decision Support; T. Bao Ho. 14. Organizational Memory Information Systems A Case-based Approach to Decision Support; H.G. Smith, et al. 15. Software InternationalizationArchitectures for DSS; P.A.V. Hall. 16. Software Integration for Environmental Management; V.S. Chabanyuk, O.V. Obvintsev. 17. Design of Decision Support Systems as Federated Information Systems; D.J. Abel, et al. 18. Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Decision Support; A. Mahadevan, et al. IV: Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Development. 19. Experience and Potential; P.A.V. Hall et al. 20. DSS Application Areas; G.E. Kersten, G. Lo. Glossary. Contributors.