Multicriteria and critical threshold value analyses in assessing sustainable forestry: Model Development and Application

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 25-62

  Mendoza, Guillermo A ^a   Hartanto, Herlina ^b   Prabhu, Ravi ^c   Villanueva, Teodoro ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)   (Zimbabwe)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES LOS BAÑOS   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Criteria and indicators; Critical threshold values; Multicriteria analysis; Participatory decision making; Sustainable forest management

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL UTILIZATION;

NATURAL RESOURCES;

FORESTRY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY FORESTRY; MODELING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

PHILIPPINES;

EID: 0036067795     PISSN: 10549811     EISSN: 1540756X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J091v15n02_02     Document Type: Article

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