10.2190/9PVD-X27Q-T7NA-M69X 9PVDX27QT7NAM69X 2 Incentives, MCDM, and Environmental Protection 25 32 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 9PVDX27QT7NAM69X.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=9PVDX27QT7NAM69X 1 Stuart Nagel Robert Nagel Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Congressional Staff The purpose of this article is to show how environmental protection can be facilitated by combining incentives theory and multi-criteria decision making. The article uses alternative ways of dealing with environmental protection for illustrative purposes; the methods are applicable to other socio-economic problems. It proceeds from a simple model to more realistic models, and concludes by noting the great potential that incentives theory and MCDM have for socio-economic planning and environmental policy.

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