Evaluation of harvesting methods for Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) using the Analytical Network Process (ANP)

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 21, Issue , 2012, Pages 81-91

  Ghajar, Ismael ^a   Najafi, Akbar ^a  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Analytical Network Process; Decision making; Forest harvesting; Sustainable Forest Management

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL NETWORK PROCESS; FOREST HARVESTING; FOREST MANAGERS; FOREST PRACTICES; FOREST UTILIZATION; LOCAL MANAGEMENT; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; QUALITATIVE CRITERIA; SOCIAL CONTEXT; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

DECISION MAKING; HARVESTING;

FORESTRY;

DECISION MAKING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; HARVESTING;

EID: 84861660657     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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