10.2190/JTXG-JRWJ-TE8W-XQBL JTXGJRWJTE8WXQBL 5 Environmental Evaluation: Fuzzy Impact Aggregation 191 204 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 JTXGJRWJTE8WXQBL.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=JTXGJRWJTE8WXQBL 2 P. N. Smith The University of Queensland, Australia This article reviews some of the theory of fuzzy sets or subsets and illustrates, by way of a simple example, an application to environmental impact assessment.

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