Assessing the sustainability of forest management: An application of multi-criteria decision analysis to community forests in northern Ethiopia

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1294-1304

  Balana, Bedru Babulo ^a   Mathijs, Erik ^b   Muys, Bart ^b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Criteria and indicators; Ethiopia; Exclosures; Multi criteria analysis; Sustainable forest management

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; REFORESTATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMMUNITY FOREST; CRITERIA AND INDICATORS; ETHIOPIA; EXCLOSURE; MANAGEMENT REGIME; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RESOURCE BASE; SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

COMMUNITY FORESTRY; DECISION ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABILITY;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; ETHIOPIA; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POLICY; REFORESTATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

ETHIOPIA; TIGRAY;

EID: 77950934773     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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