The Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) programme introduced in the 1990s, in Australia to protect environmental values, encourage job creation and growth and manage forests in an ecologically sustainable manner. Multi-criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) techniques were used in this study to assess...

This paper provides a review of research contributions on forest management and planning using multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) based on an exhaustive literature survey. The review primarily focuses on the application aspects highlighting theoretical underpinnings and controversies. It also...

Sustainable development has (SD) been an important objective promoted by many development economists during the last few decades. However, the implementation of sustainable development has been a problem since adequate guidelines are not available. This is specially so in the use of...

Many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America have turned over irrigation systems to farmer groups. There is general consensus that neoclassical economics has failed to address many issues in irrigation water management. Institutional issues have been at the heart of some of these failures....