MESTAa - Non-industrial private forest owners' decision-support environment for the evaluation of alternative forest plans over the internet

International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 601-620

  Pasanen, Karri ^a   Kurttila, Mikko ^a   Pykäiäinen, Jouni ^a   Kangas, Jyrki ^b   Leskinen, Pekka ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UPM Kymmene Forest   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forestry decision support; Internet based forest planning; Multi criteria acceptability voting; Multi criteria approval; Multi criteria decision analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744966287     PISSN: 02196220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/s0219622005001726     Document Type: Article

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