Use of Multicriteria Analysis for Selecting Candidate Insecticides for Vector Control

Abstract ..................................................................................................................348 Keywords ...............................................................................................................348 14.1Introduction ..................................................................................................348 14.2Materials and Methods ................................................................................. 351

14.2.1List of Insecticides ............................................................................ 351 14.2.2 Multicriteria Analysis ....................................................................... 352 14.2.3Selection of the Criteria and Their Modalities ................................. 358

14.2.3.1Toxicity Criteria ................................................................. 358 14.2.3.2Ecotoxicity Criteria ............................................................ 359 14.2.3.3Exposure and Environmental Fate Criteria ....................... 361

14.2.4 Selection of the Hierarchies .............................................................. 363 14.3 Results ...........................................................................................................364