“…Researchers have used MCDA, e.g., to choose among alternative land uses (Fontana et al, 2013;Restrepo Estrada and Alvia Ramirez, 2013;Borgogno-Mondino et al, 2015), to select among a number of flood protection options in watersheds (Porthin et al, 2013), to locate sites suitable for new landfills (Sener et al, 2006;El Baba et al, 2015), to establish sustainable industrial areas (Ruiz et al, 2012), to develop tourism, including ecotourism (Erfani et al, 2015), to assess the sustainability of alternative cropping systems (Sadok et al, 2008(Sadok et al, , 2009, to optimize the reclamation and redevelopment of brownfields and open pit mines (Bascetin, 2007;Morio et al, 2013), or to assess and map land degradation (Bojorquez-Tapia et al, 2013).…”