Applying Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis to Forest Ecosystem Management with Both Cardinal and Ordinal Criteria

Forest Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 928-937

  Kangas, Jyrki ^a   Hokkanen, Joonas ^b   Kangas, Annika S ^c   Lahdelma, Risto ^d   Salminen, Pekka ^e  

^a UPM Kymmene Forest   (Finland)

^b Ramboll Finland Oy   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Forest planning; Landscape ecology; Multicriteria decision support; Sustainable forestry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ECOSYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

LANDSCAPES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0346120002     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestscience/49.6.928     Document Type: Article

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