Fuzzy multicriteria approval method and its application to two forest planning problems

Forest Science

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 232-242

  Kangas, Annika ^a   Kangas, Jyrki ^b   Laukkanen, Sanna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UPM Forest   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest planning; Fuzzy set theory; Group decision support; Multicriteria approval; Natural resource management; Voting theory

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; NATURAL RESOURCES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

FOREST PLANNING; GROUP DECISION SUPPORT; MULTICRITERIA APPROVAL; VOTING THEORY;

FORESTRY;

DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; FUZZY LOGIC; NATURAL RESOURCES; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33744970533     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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