Evaluating integrated watershed management using multiple criteria analysis - A case study at chittagong hill tracts in Bangladesh

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2741-2761

  Biswas, Shampa ^a,b   Vacik, Harald ^c   Swanson, Mark E ^b   Haque, S M Sirajul ^d  

^a INDEPENDENT UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHITTAGONG   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP); Criteria and indicators (C I) assessment; Integrated Watershed Management (IWM); Key stakeholders; Multi criteria analysis (MCA); Resource planning

Indexed keywords

CRITERIA AND INDICATORS; INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; KEY STAKEHOLDERS; MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS; RESOURCE PLANNING;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; BIODIVERSITY; FLOOD CONTROL; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; LANDFORMS; RATING; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

SOIL CONSERVATION;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOINDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CASE STUDY; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; FLOODING; INCOME; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE; BANGLADESH; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; INCOME; POLICY MAKING; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

BANGLADESH; CHITTAGONG [BANGLADESH]; CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS;

EID: 84862854120     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2148-x     Document Type: Article

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