Integrating humans in ecosystem management using multi-criteria decision making

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 277-288

  Pavlikakis, Georgios E ^a   Tsihrintzis, Vassilios A ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Compromise programming; Ecosystem management; Expected utility method; Negotiation group; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PUBLIC POLICY;

ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT (EM) PROCESS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION;

EID: 0038185317     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2003.tb04383.x     Document Type: Article

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