Abstract
Environmental assessment is key to any environmental policy and is now among the highest priorities in socioeconomic development around the world. The present paper focuses on the application of multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques to assessing the effectiveness of U S environmental policies for the reduction of toxic releases. The entropy concept is employed to assign suitable weights to the environmental indicators to reflect their relative importance in the assessment process.
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