Incorporating social factors to improve the Japanese forest zoning process

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 161-173

  Sugimura, Ken ^a   Howard, Theodore E ^b  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytic Hierarchy Process; Forest function; Grid data; Primary management objective; Site quality assessment; Social evaluation; Thurstone's law of comparative judgment

Indexed keywords

GRID DATA; PRIMARY MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVE;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 37249077056     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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