How do you perceive environmental change? Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping informing stakeholder analysis for environmental policy making and non-market valuation

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3725-3735

  Kontogianni, Areti D ^a   Papageorgiou, Elpiniki I ^b   Tourkolias, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAMIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision making; Environmental management; Fuzzy Cognitive Mapping; Non market valuation; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE MAPPING; ECONOMIC VALUES; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL DECISIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HUMAN PERCEPTION; MULTI-STAKEHOLDER; NON-MARKET VALUATION; PARTICIPATORY METHODS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SCENARIOS; STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS;

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MAPPING; RISK PERCEPTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

EID: 84869083682     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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