Conversely to the methodological approach proposed in literature, based on Multi Criteria Analysis giving different weights (affected by uncertainty) to TPIs, our methodological approach is based on Euclidean distance in a vector space ℜN, where N is the number of TPIs.
It is the Authors' conjecture that the methodological approach proposed has a great potential when compared to the disjoint use of the techniques.
The methodological approach proposed here represents an evolution of a previous Fuzzy Multi-Level (FML) model [36, 37], obtained by means of various structural changes which introduce simplification, both formal and methodological.
The methodological approach proposed in this paper will facilitate comparative analyses with those changes that may occur in other natural regions within Europe.
Based on a conceptual and methodological framework proposed by Robert Rosen we elaborate such an anticipatory view that establishes the uniqueness of design compared to these paradigms.
It is important to underline that the methodological approach proposed in this paper innovates in the joint, coordinated and correctly sequenced use of well-accepted and developed techniques that have gained a substantial consensus among researchers and practitioners.
We refer to the methodological framework proposed by Buchanan at the end of the 1980s for the elicitation of expert knowledge in the field of artificial intelligence through 'sharing observation' (Forsythe and Buchanan 1989; Schön 1983).
The original methodological approach proposed in this study, a Panel Two-Stage Residual Inclusion approach, seems to have yielded sensible results and to have effectively addressed problems that are known to be a source of bias in the literature.
The evaluation was performed according to the methodological framework proposed by Bockstaller and Girardin [Bockstaller, C., Girardin, P., 2003. How to validate environmental indicators? Agric. Syst. 76, 639 653]: design, output and end-use validation.
The methodological framework proposed in this paper meets the requirements of a functional tool capable of anticipating hydrological changes in wetlands at both the land management scale and the watershed management scale.
