Robustness-oriented Group Decision Support. A Case from Ecology Economics

Problems of the field of Ecological Economics are inherently complex and by definition involve trade-offs among multiple criteria. Moreover, the decisions made involve multiple parties, often with conflicting interests. For these reasons, the multiple criteria decision aid (MCDA) paradigm appears as a valuable tool for the field of Ecological Economics and indeed as an indispensable tool in the cases where participatory decisions must be made. In this work we apply a robustness-oriented MCDA approach to reach a solution for a land use problem in Northern Greece. The mathematical modeling as well as the case study results are presented.