Information search behaviour of European forest policy decision-makers

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 579-592

  Janse, Gerben ^a  

^a EUROPEAN FOREST INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Decision making; European forest policy; Information needs; Information search; Survey

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN FOREST POLICY; INFORMATION NEEDS; INFORMATION SEARCH; SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PUBLIC POLICY; SURVEYS;

FORESTRY;

DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33746287801     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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