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A Combined MOIP–MCDA Approach to Building and Screening Atmospheric Pollution Control Strategies in Urban Regions

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This article presents a methodological approach for the formulation of control strategies capable of reducing atmospheric pollution at the standards set by European legislation. The approach was implemented in the greater area of Thessaloniki and was part of a project aiming at the compliance with air quality standards in five major cities in Greece. The methodological approach comprises two stages: in the first stage, the availability of several measures contributing to a certain extent to reducing atmospheric pollution indicates a combinatorial problem and favors the use of Integer Programming. More specifically, Multiple Objective Integer Programming is used in order to generate alternative efficient combinations of the available policy measures on the basis of two conflicting objectives: public expenditure minimization and social acceptance maximization. In the second stage, these combinations of control measures (i.e., the control strategies) are then comparatively evaluated with respect to a wider set of criteria, using tools from Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, namely, the well-known PROMETHEE method. The whole procedure is based on the active involvement of local and central authorities in order to incorporate their concerns and preferences, as well as to secure the adoption and implementation of the resulting solution.

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The authors thank the three anonymous referees for their stimulating comments and recommendations.

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  1. Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, Schools of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, 15780, Greece

    George Mavrotas & Danae Diakouaki

  2. Laboratory of Process Analysis and Design Schools of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, 15780, Greece

    Ioannis C. Ziomas

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Mavrotas, G., Ziomas, I.C. & Diakouaki, D. A Combined MOIP–MCDA Approach to Building and Screening Atmospheric Pollution Control Strategies in Urban Regions. Environmental Management 38, 149–160 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-005-0111-8

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