Evaluating the management strategies of a forestland estate - The S-O-S approach

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 349-358

  Kangas, Jyrki ^a   Kurttila, Mikko ^b   Kajanus, Miika ^c   Kangas, Annika ^d  

^a UPM Kymmene Forest   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c SAVONIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

A 'WOT; Forest management; Multiple criteria decision support; Non industrial privatee forestry; Stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis with ordinal criteria; Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

A 'WOT; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION SUPPORTS; MULTIPLE-CRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT; NON-INDUSTRIAL PRIVATEE FORESTRY; STOCHASTIC MULTICRITERIA ACCEPTABILITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MULTICRITERIUM ACCEPTABILITY ANALYSE WITH ORDINAL CRITERIA; STRENGTH ANALYSIS; STRENGTH, WEAKNESS, OPPORTUNITY, AND THREAT; SUPPORT METHOD; THREATS ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; METHODOLOGY; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0347447330     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2003.09.010     Document Type: Article

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