Case-Oriented Paper
Journal of the Operational Research Society (2009) 60, 534–543. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602588 Published online 19 March 2008
Agricultural sustainable management: a normative approach based on goal programming
S Elfkih1, M L Feijoo1 and C Romero2
- 1Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
- 2Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Correspondence: C Romero, Economics for a Sustainable Environment, Department of Forest Economics and Management, Forestry School, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, 28040 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: carlos.romero@upm.es
Received June 2007; Accepted January 2008; Published online 19 March 2008.
Abstract
This paper has two goals. It aims, first, to explore how the use of goal programming (GP) techniques within a Simonian-bounded rationality context can be an operational framework for dealing with the sustainable management of agricultural systems. Second, it goes on to apply this type of theoretical framework to a case study related to the sustainable management of irrigated agriculture in the Spanish Monegros District, where GP models are used to establish sensible compromises among economic and environmental criteria.
Keywords:
bounded rationality, environmental criteria, goal programming, irrigated agriculture, multiple criteria decision making, sustainability
