ABSTRACT

The increasing complexity in environmental management has emerged from the consideration of multiple environmental, social and economic factors and thus the related industry is becoming more sophisticated in the use of technology. The involvement of different groups of decision-makers generates the need for the development of reliable, comprehensive and easily accessible tools. Such tools are meant to provide information in a structured way, in a form easily understood and interpreted by the different groups of stakeholders and decision-makers in planning processes, which are fundamentally heterogenic and usually follow different interests.