Qualitative multi-criteria approaches to assessing indicators of sustainable forest resource management

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 174, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 329-343

  Mendoza, Guillermo A ^a   Prabhu, Ravi ^b  

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

^b Center for International Forestry Research   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Cognitive mapping; Criteria and indicators; Multi criteria analysis; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY;

SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

FORESTRY;

DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY;

EID: 0037450752     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00044-0     Document Type: Article

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