Definition of priority areas for forest conservation through the ordered weighted averaging method

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 256, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1408-1417

  Valente, Roberta de Oliveira Averna ^a   Vettorazzi, Carlos Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Forest fragmentation; Multicriteria evaluation; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LAND USE; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGIONAL PLANNING; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); CORE AREA; DECISION PROBLEMS; DECISION-MAKING PROCESS; FOREST CONSERVATION; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; FOREST PATCHES; IMPORTANCE WEIGHTS; MULTICRITERIA EVALUATION; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING; OWA METHOD; RIVER BASINS; URBAN AREAS; WEIGHTED LINEAR COMBINATION;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; EROSION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FRAGMENTATION; GIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER;

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; CITIES; CONSERVATION; DECISION MAKING; EROSION; FORESTRY; FORESTS; GIS; LAND USE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RIVERS; ROADS; SENSITIVITY; SURFACE WATER; WATER ANALYSIS;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 49749144403     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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