Uncertainty and forest land use allocation in British Columbia: Vague priorities and imprecise coefficients

Forest Science

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 509-520

  Ells, Arlene ^a   Bulte, Erwin ^b   Van Kooten, G Cornelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fuzzy set theory; Multiple objective management; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030704307     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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