Quantifying and exploring strategic regional priorities for managing natural capital and ecosystem services given multiple stakeholder perspectives

Ecosystems

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 539-555

  Bryan, Brett A ^a   Grandgirard, Agnès ^b   Ward, John R ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Compositional analysis; Environmental management; Multicriteria decision analysis; Multiple objective; Planning; Weighting

Indexed keywords

DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; NATURAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL CAPITAL; STAKEHOLDER;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 77953540439     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9339-0     Document Type: Article

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