Multiple criteria analysis for agricultural decisions / Carlos Romero and Tahir Rehman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romero, Carlos, 1946-

Contributor:

Rehman, T. (Tahir)

Series:

Developments in agricultural economics ; 11.

Developments in agricultural economics ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Decision making.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents the Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) paradigm for modelling agricultural decision-making in three parts. The first part, comprising two chapters, is philosophical in nature and deals with the concepts that define the underlying structure of the MCDM paradigm. The second part is the largest part consisting of five chapters, each of which presents the logic of a specific MCDM technique, and demonstrates how it can be used to model a particular decision problem. In the final part, some selected applications of the MCDM techniques to agricultural problems are presented a

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part one: Multiple criteria in agricultural decisions; Chapter 1. Main features of the multiple criteria decision-making paradigm; Criticism of the traditional paradigm for decision-making; Economic versus technological decisions; Multiple objectives and goals in agricultural economics; Historical origins of the MCDM paradigm; Plan of the book; Suggestions for further reading; Chapter 2. Some basic concepts; Attributes, objectives and goals; Distinction between goals and constraints; Pareto optimality; Trade-offs between decision-making criteria

A first approximation of the main MCDM approachesSuggestions for further reading; Part two: Multiple criteria decision-making techniques; Chapter 3. Goal programming; Introductory example for handling multiple criteria in a farm planning model; The role of deviational variables in goal programming; Lexicographic goal programming; Sensitivity analysis in LGP; The graphical method for solving an LGP problem; The sequential linear method for LGP; A brief comment on other LGP algorithms; Weighted goal programming; A critical assessment of goal programming; Some extensions of goal programming

Suggestions for further readingChapter 4. Multiobjective programming; An approximation of the multiobjective programming problem; The pay-off matrix in MOP; The constraint method; The weighting method; The noninferior set estimation method (NISE); Multigoal programming; Some issues related to the use of MOP techniques; Suggestions for further reading; Chapter 5. Compromise programming; An intuitive treatment of the concept of distance measures; A discrete approximation of the best-compromise solution; Compromise programming - a continuous setting; The method of the displaced ideal

Pros and cons of GP, MOP and CPRelationships between different MCDM approaches; Suggestions for further reading; Chapter 6. The interactive multiple criteria decision-making approach; Structure of an interactive MCDM process; The STEM method; The Zionts and Wallenius method; Interactive multiple goal programming; An assessment of interactive MCDM approaches; Suggestions for further reading; Chapter 7. Risk and uncertainty and the multiple criteria decision-making techniques; Risk programming techniques in agricultural planning within an MCDM framework; Compromise-risk programming

Game theory models and the MCDM frameworkGames with multiple goals and goal programming; Compromise games; Suggestions for further reading; Part three: Case studies; Chapter 8. A compromise programming model for the agrarian reform programme in Andalusia, Spain; Background; Trade-off curves for seasonal labour, employment and gross margin; Compromise sets; An approximation of the efficient set in a three-dimensional objectives space; Concluding comments; Chapter 9. Livestock ration formulation and multiple criteria decision-making techniques; A livestock ration formulation example

Ration formulation as a WGP problem

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-184) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-03873-3

9786611038731

0-08-053708-1

OCLC:

476100903