MULTIPLE-OBJECTIVE DECISION-MAKING FOR LOKAHI (BALANCE) IN ENVIRONMENTAL-MANAGEMENT

Innovative advances and applications in multiple objective decision-ma king (MODM) contained in the upcoming set of papers published in this special issue of Applied Mathematics and Computation are summarized, a ssessed, and compared with regard to their usefulness for tackling com plex problems in environmental management. Since many of the MODM meth ods and associated decision support systems used in environmental mana gement originate from the field of operations research (OR), technique s from OR are categorized with respect to their abilities to handle mu ltiple objectives and multiple decision makers. The applications prese nted in the forthcoming papers clearly demonstrate that a range of OR and other scientific methods are usually required for properly modelli ng, analyzing, and solving real-world environmental management problem s. (C) Elsevier Science Inc., 1997.