10.2190/X6V5-1GBN-5B7X-TF4R X6V51GBN5B7XTF4R 1 Indices of Soil Quality: A Multicriteria Value Functions Approach 1 20 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 X6V51GBN5B7XTF4R.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=X6V51GBN5B7XTF4R 1 E. Beinat P. Nijkamp P. Rietveld Tinbergen Institute, Free University, The Netherlands LIUC, Italy This article addresses the estimation of soil quality for evaluating clean-up alternatives for polluted soils. In many practical applications the goal of a high soil quality after clean-up cannot be reached due to technical or budget constraints. The selection of the cleaning-up technique requires trade-off analyses between soil quality and other features. Soil quality measures are based on dose-effect functions, which translate contaminant concentrations into effects. Since dose-effect functions are not available for most common pollutants, substitute evaluations based on expert judgements are used. 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