Sustainable rangeland management using a multi-fuzzy model: How to deal with heterogeneous experts' knowledge

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 236-249

  Azadi, Hossein ^a   Shahvali, Mansour ^a   van den Berg, Jan ^b   Faghih, Nezamoddin ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carrying capacity; Heterogeneous experts' knowledge; Multi fuzzy model; Sustainable rangeland management; Voting methods

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

CARRYING CAPACITY; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; FUZZY MODELING; HETEROGENEOUS EXPERT' KNOWLEDGE; MULTI-FUZZY MODEL; PRIMARY OUTPUTS; PRIMARY SYSTEMS; RANGELAND MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE RANGELAND MANAGEMENT; VOTING METHOD;

FUZZY SYSTEMS;

EXPERT SYSTEM; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; LAND MANAGEMENT; OVERGRAZING; PASTURE; RANGELAND; SUSTAINABILITY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FUZZY SYSTEM; GRAZING; IRAN; PASTURE; RANGELAND; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FARS; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33846658723     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.03.012     Document Type: Article

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