Soltanmohammadi, H, Osanloo, M & Sami, A 2008, 'Suitability Analysis for Post-Closure Land Management Options Using a Multi-Stakeholder Decision Support Tool', in AB Fourie, M Tibbett, I Weiersbye & P Dye (eds), Mine Closure 2008: Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Mine Closure, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, pp. 335-346, https://doi.org/10.36487/ACG_repo/852_31
(https://papers.acg.uwa.edu.au/p/852_31_Soltanmohammadi/)
Abstract: The decision making process leading to potentially contentious mine closure management options being 
adopted necessitates a collaborative procedure, where all concerned stakeholders participate in arriving at 
the final decision. This process needs to take into account different and sometimes conflicting attributes of 
the damaged ecosystem. In this study, application of a Group Decision Making (GDM) approach, which 
takes into account judgments by all the identified stakeholders in a comprehensible mathematical model, is 
illustrated through a hypothetical example of a mine closure planning process. For this purpose, fourteen 
technical and stakeholder-related attributes which influence evaluation in decision making were identified 
and divided into criteria groups in a hierarchical structure. This hierarchy can then be sent to the 
stakeholder groups to score both performance and importance of the attributes. A group version of 
Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), which is a distance-based Multi-
Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) technique, is used to rank the management options. Application of the 
proposed approach to the mined ecosystem example generates consensual relative closeness indices 
indicating the optimum post-closure land management option.