Mapping indicator models: From intuitive problem structuring to quantified decision-making in sustainable forest management

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 274-283

  Wolfslehner, Bernhard ^a   Vacik, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Analytic Network Process (ANP); Austria; Cognitive mapping (CM); Europe; Indicators; Sustainable forest management (SFM)

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; FORESTRY; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); MAPPING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS; AUSTRIA; COGNITIVE MAPPING; EUROPE; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING;

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOINDICATOR; DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

AUSTRIA; DECISION MAKING; EUROPE; MAPPING; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 79954414547     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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