Literature
on SERI's Methods

Land Use Accounting and Analysis/ Material Flow Accounting and Analysis

Adriaanse, A., Bringezu, S., Hamond, A., Moriguchi, Y., Rodenburg, E., Rogich, D., and Schütz, H. (1997). Resource Flows: The Material Base of Industrial Economies World Resource Institute, Washington.

Bringezu, S. (2000). Ressourcennutzung in Wirtschaftsräumen. Stoffstromanalysen für eine nachhaltige Raumentwicklung Springer, Berlin/New York.

Bringezu, S., Fischer-Kowalski, M., Klein, R., and Palm, V. (1997). Regional and National Material Flow Accounting: From Paradigm to Practice of Sustainability., Leiden.

Bringezu, S. and Schütz, H. (2001a). Material use indicators for the European Union, 1980-1997. Economy-wide material flow accounts and balances and derived indicators of resource use, EUROSTAT Working Paper, No. 2/2001/B/2. Wuppertal Institute, Wuppertal.

Bringezu, S. and Schütz, H. (2001b). Total material requirement of the European Union, No. Technical Report No. 55. European Environmental Agency, Copenhagen.

EUROSTAT (2001). Economy-wide material flow accounts and derived indicators. A methodological guide Office for Official Publications of the European Union, Luxembourg.

Fischer-Kowalski, M. and Hüttler, W. (1999). Society's Metabolism. The Intellectual History of Materials Flow Analysis. Part II, 1970-1998. Industrial Ecology, 2, 107-136.

Kleijn, R., Bringezu, S., Fischer-Kowalski, M., and Palm, V. (1999). Ecologizing Societal Metabolism. Designing Scenarios for Sustainable Materials Management, No. CML Report 148, Leiden.

Matthews, E., Bringezu, S., Fischer-Kowalski, M., Huetller, W., Kleijn, R., Moriguchi, Y., Ottke, C., Rodenburg, E., Rogich, D., Schandl, H., Schuetz, H., van der Voet, E., and Weisz, H. (2000). The weight of nations. Material outflows from industrial economies World Resources Institute, Washington.

OECD (2000). Special Session on Material Flow Accounting. History and Overview. OECD, Paris.

Schmidt-Bleek, F. (1994). Wie viel Umwelt braucht der Mensch ? MIPS - das Maß für ökologisches Wirtschaften. Birkhauser;, Berlin, Basel.

Schmidt-Bleek, F., Bringezu, S., Hinterberger, F., Liedtke, C., Spangenberg, J., Stiller, H., and Welfens, M. (1998). MAIA. Einführung in die Materialintensitätsanalyse nach dem MIPS-Konzept Birkhauser, Berlin, Basel.

Spangenberg, J., Femia, A., Hinterberger, F., and Schütz, H. (1998). Material Flow-based Indicators in Environmental Reporting, Environmental Issues Series, No. No 14. European Environmental Agency, Luxembourg.

United Nations (2001). System of Environmental and Economic Accounting. SEEA 2000 Revision United Nations, New York.

Multi Criteria Decision Aid

Basic/Theory

C. Bana e Costa (1990), Readings in Multiple Criteria Decision Aid, Springer.

Hokkanen, J. (1997), Aiding Public Environmental Decision Making by Multicriteria Analysis. Report 72, University of Jyväskylä.

Keeney, R.L., Raiffa, H. (1976), Decisions with Multiple Objectives. New York. Wiley.

Munda, G. (1995), Multicriteria Evaluation in a Fuzzy Environment. Heidelberg. Physica-Verlag.

Roy, B. Multicriteria Methodology for Decision Aiding, Kluwer, 1996.

Roy, B., Vanderpooten, D., (1996), The European School of MCDA: Emergence, Basic Features and Current Works, in: Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, vol. 5, 22-38.

P. Vincke (1992), Multicriteria Decision-Aid, John Wiley & Sons.

Methods

De Montis, A., De Toro, P., Droste-Franke, Omann, I., B., Stagl, S. (2000), Criteria for quality assessment of MCDA-methods, presented at the 3rd Biennial Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics, Vienna, May 3 - 6, 2000

De Montis, A., De Toro, P., Droste-Franke, B., Omann, I., Stagl, S. (forthcoming), Sustainable Development and Evaluation: A Framework for the Comparison of Multicriteria Decision Methods. In: Getzner, M., Spash, C., Stagl, S.,(eds.) Developing Alternatives for Valuing Nature. Cheltenham. Edward Elgar.

Applications

Despontin, M., Nijkamp, P., Spronk, J. (eds.) (1984), Macro-Economic Planning with Conflicting Goals. Berlin. Springer Verlag.

Fandel, G., Spronk, J. (eds.) (1985), Multiple Criteria-Decision Methods and Applications. Selected Readings of the First International Summer School Acireale, September 1983. Berlin. Springer Verlag.

Nijkamp, P., Rietveld, P., Voogd, H. (1990), Multicriteria Evaluation in Physical Planning. Amsterdam. North-Holland.

Paruccini, M., Roy, B. (eds.) (1994), Applying Multiple Criteria Aid for Decision to Environmental Management. Dordrecht. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Rietveld, P. (1980), Multiple Objectiv Decision Methods and Regional Planning. Amsterdam. North-Holland Publishing Company

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