When is a decision problem not a nail?
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2003
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Operations Research Society of South Africa Newsletter
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University of Cape Town
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At the outset I need to emphasise that my interest in MCDA (Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis) is primarily in its application to natural resource management decision-making. Within that realm of application, I suspect that, in my initial enthusiasm several years ago, I was guilty of falling into the trap of “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. Over time, it has become clearer to me that on the one hand, the field of MCDA provides a multitude of tools which can indeed address a wide array of problems, but, on the other, there are questions that need to be answered using other tools.
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Joubert, A. R. (2003). When is a decision problem not a nail? Operations Research Society of South Africa Newsletter, July: 5-7.