Probability, possibility and evidence: Approaches to consider risk and uncertainty in forestry decision analysis

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 169-188

  Kangas, Annika S ^a   Kangas, Jyrki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest planning; Fuzzy logic; Multi criteria decision analysis; Optimisation; Risk management; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PLANNING; PROBABILITY; RISKS;

DECISION RULES; FORESTRY DECISIONS;

FORESTRY;

EID: 1642385451     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-9341(02)00083-7     Document Type: Article

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