Multiple criteria decision support in forest management - The approach, methods applied, and experiences gained

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 207, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 133-143

  Kangas, Jyrki ^a   Kangas, Annika ^b  

^a UPM Forest ^*  (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

AHP; Decision aid; Forest planning; Multi criteria analysis; Multi functional forestry; Operations research; Outranking; SMAA; Voting

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; PLANNING;

HYBRID APPROACHES; INFORMATION NETWORKS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION SUPPORT (MCDS); MULTIPLE-PURPOSE FORESTRY;

FORESTRY;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY;

BEHAVIOR; COMPUTATION; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PLANNING;

EID: 14644423334     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2004.10.023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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