Cascaded Tradeoffs: A Multiple-Objective, Multiple-Publics Method for Alternatives Evaluation in Water Resources Planning

摘要

Cascaded Tradeoffs is a method for arriving at an overall ranking of planning alternatives on the basis of public values. The key feature of the method is that it provides for-making tradeoffs across both issue dimensions and publics. (Traditional economic analyses of market values can be helpful in the first step, but not always in the second. There appears to be no generally applicable alternative to human judgment for comparing the values of different publics.) The method shows not only how to deal with tradeoffs where tradeoffs must be made, but also how to identify or create situations where tradeoffs do not need to be made.