Multicriteria Analysis: A Decision Support System for Sustainable Environmental Management

A balanced and sustainable socio-economic and environmental evolution of our societies appears to be more a fiction than a reality. Our economic and environmental systems seem to be controlled by antagonistic forces, so that current quantitative and qualitative changes in our demographic, industrial, social and technological patterns seem to exhibit incongruent economic and environmental repercussions. Thus, conflicts seem to be omnipresent in the area of environmental and resource management, and in policies aiming at an ecologically sustainable economic development.