Can a problem-solving approach strengthen landscape ecology's contribution to sustainable landscape planning?

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1155-1168

  McAlpine, Clive A ^a   Seabrook, Leonie M ^a   Rhodes, Jonathan R ^a   Maron, Martine ^a   Smith, Carl ^a   Bowen, Michiala E ^a   Butler, Sarah A ^a   Powell, Owen ^a   Ryan, Justin G ^a   Fyfe, Christine T ^b   Adams Hosking, Christine ^a   Smith, Andrew ^a   Robertson, Oliver ^a   Howes, Alison ^a   Cattarino, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Communities; Decision analysis; Economic constraints; Landscape sustainability problems; Multiple functions; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DECISION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 77956545751     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9514-x     Document Type: Article

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