Part One. Multiple Criteria in Agricultural Decisions. 1. Main features of the MCDM paradigm. 2. Some basic concepts. P art Two. Multiple Criteria Decision Making Techniques. 3. Goal programming. 4. Multiobjective programming. 5. Compromise programming. 6 . Structure of an interactive MCDM process. 7. Risk and uncertainty and the MCDM techniques. Part Three. Case Studies. 8. A com promise programming model for the agrarian reform programme in Andalusia , Spain. 9. Livestock ration formulation and MCDM techniques. 10. Livest ock ration formulation with penalty functions via goal programming. 11. Optimum fertilizer use via goal programming with penalty functions. Refe rences. Subject Index.
postgraduate courses in modelling for decision-making; as a manual for researchers and practising modellers; and, as general reference on the application of MCDM techniques. Readers with basic appreciation of algebra and linear programming can easily follow the contents of this book.