“…participation, focussing on an intensive integration of stakeholders, and multi-criteria decision aid as a special case of multi-criteria analysis, focussing on uncertain data and values, play a prominent role in the resolution of environmental conflicts (cp. Nothdurft, 1995;Paruccini, 1994;for a combination: De Marchi et al, 2000), but there have been few attempts to find a common methodological framework (one example is Banville et al, 1998).…”