Methods for allocation of habitat management, maintenance, restoration and offsetting, when conservation actions have uncertain consequences

Biological Conservation

Volumn 153, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-50

  Pouzols, Federico Montesino ^a   Burgman, Mark A ^b   Moilanen, Atte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Benefit function; Complementarity; Computational sustainability; Decision support tool; Robustness; Scoring

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMPLEMENTARITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862734092     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.05.014     Document Type: Article

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