10.2190/1217-CT4F-3FJX-9FFX 1217CT4F3FJX9FFX 5 A Multi-Objective Framework for Environmental Management Using Goal Programming 133 147 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 1217CT4F3FJX9FFX.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=1217CT4F3FJX9FFX 2 Demetrios Panagiotakopoulos Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada The scope of environmental management is to reach as much as possible a socially acceptable balance between economic benefits and resulting environmental quality; such a balance is defined in terms of politically established criteria and goals. Environmental management should also be concerned with integrating the often conflicting sub-goals of the economic, environmental, and technological components of the economic-environmental system into a multiple objective for guiding the development and evaluation of alternative policies. This paper presents a prescriptive framework for environmental management at the regional level which allows for a sufficiently realistic representation of the total system, deals systematically with multiple objectives through goal programming optimization techniques, and suggests an effective interaction between the decision-maker and the analyst for devising compromises among conflicting objectives. This is designed as an improvement over the ad hoc trial-and-error analysis based on tradeoff relations. In essence, the procedure outlined here is directed toward establishing the economic-growth/environmental-quality possibility frontier of a region. D. Panagiotakopoulos, "An Optimization Model for Balancing Economic-Environmental Systems," <i>Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering</i>, Volume 2, Number 1, 1975. C. S. Russel and W. O. Spofford, "A Quantitative Framework for Residuals Management Decisions," in A. V. Kneese and B. T. Bower, (eds.), <i>Environmental Quality Analysis</i>, Resources for the Future, Inc., The Johns Hopkins Press, 1972. B. Roy, "Problems and Methods with Multiple Objectives Functions," <i>Mathematical Programming</i>, Volume 1 (1971), 239-266. A. Charnes and W. W. Cooper, <i>Management Models and Industrial Applications of Linear Programming</i>, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1961. D. Panaglotakopoulos, "Multi-Commodity Multi-Transformed Network Flows with an Application to Residuals Management," Report No. UES 75-10, Civil Engineering, McGill University, January 1975, to appear in <i>Management Science.</i> M. Zeleny, <i>Linear Multiobjective Programming</i>, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 95, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1974.