GIS-based support tool system for decision-making regarding local forest protection: Illustrations from Orissa, India

Environmental Management

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-45

  Ostwald, Madelene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

GIS; India; Local forest control; Risk priority analyses; Support tool system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EROSION; FORESTRY;

MANAGEMENT MONITORING TOOLS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS;

AGE; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EROSION; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INDIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PLANT REGENERATION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; RISK; TOPOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MANAGEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREE;

INDIA;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POLICY MAKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREES;

EID: 0036653798     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-002-2471-7     Document Type: Article

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